I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

We've begun to get justice.

It's wrong to kill.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I'm against abortion.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

I'm for prayer in schools.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

This is a racist country.

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

I'm for economic independence.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

I don't believe in welfare.

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!