The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.