The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a different set of prerogatives than a party does makes conflicts unavoidable.

I have a very clear, genuine vision about what political work should be, what politics and politicians should contribute to the nation.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.