All of those ideas, the politics of isolation and assassination, must give way to reconciliation and reconstruction... we must pursue good neighbor policies,

Robertson later said he meant a regime change, not an assassination, ... It's fair to say, however, that most Americans disagree with what Rev. Robertson said.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

For nine months they've been spewing lies and character assassination on Senator Burns. It's all politics.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.