There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar m….

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate..

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor….

I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they….

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s wh….

On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On th….

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen..

It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, b….

Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergenc….

There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITH….

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the Un….

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate..

We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in t….

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our h….

Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the mas….

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. ….

But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the ones who are trying t….

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighbo….

God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time, this place for all Christians - Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox - to save our country an….

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presenc….

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world..