A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Keep hope alive!
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.