The very character of the seven-party leaders fluctuates. If they're talking to the foreign powers they say one thing. If they talk to us they say another thing ... So the people do not trust them.

When party leaders approached me three weeks ago, I told them how difficult a campaign would be this year considering my personal and professional commitments, ... Besides, I never cared for candidates who had to be coaxed into a political battle. Either you feel it in your gut or you don't.

I would see this as a game to strengthen his bargaining position in the party.

There just aren't enough fields. (City leaders) keep talking about building more fields, but they never do anything about it. We got tired of waiting and decided to get our own field.

The goal of the government was to get all the leaders of the Black Panther Party in jail so that they could be killed systematically through prison violence, and that way they could stop what was a very powerful and evolving movement,

You're talking a 40 percent increase in taxes. Anytime political leaders decide they want to give voters a tax break, they also have to recognize there are consequences. You can't pass off the burden from one tax paying body to another.