I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.