Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Be kind to unkind people “ they need it the most.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

I do have to go to the gym, which I don't enjoy that much.

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.

I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.

Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'

I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

I've worked with Method Man and Shaquille O'Neil on multiple occasions. I'd never have thought. It's like, 'Oh, those guys. They're my movie buddies.'

I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.