Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.