"I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options."

"Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics."

"The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other."

"My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home."

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."

"In the depths of adversity, a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."