Politics is a substitute for violence.
You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.
I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.
I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.
When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.
Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.
I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.
I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.
And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'
Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.
We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.
I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.
Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
