"I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level."

"There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports."

"Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush."

"The strength of America is not in Washington."

"Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster."

"A man without a vote is man without protection."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the true master is an eternal student."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."