the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

I think the convention is off to a wonderful start.

But the larger point that I've made is that we've done 25 years without a black Alabamian being appointed to the federal bench,

As long as there are places in the state where poverty falls unevenly, we are still trying to build a perfect union, ... One day, there will not be a curtain between the Black Belt and the non-Black Belt.

Our displaced citizens should have the same rights as our soldiers and for that matter, our college students, to participate in their states elections while they are temporarily away from home, ... This bill would allow evacuees to assert by affidavit that they intend to return to Louisiana or Mississippi and vote in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections by absentee ballot.