“You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, A...” — Gene Green Quote

You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.

If you're going to do something to hurt the district I represent, I can't vote for it.

I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.

The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

If you were asking me how it is to be a Muslim in America, it's much harder to be a North African in France than to be a foreigner here in America.

I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.