“The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers”

Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, “You can’t do this. Write an op-ed.”

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, ‘Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?’ They want that.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world – we need to make them accessible to every American.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

I think being prepared for anything is the way to go.

I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we’ve made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.

The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ?

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.