I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

I was supposed to be mentally retarded or I was supposed to have died, ... So I'm going to make the best of it.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.