“First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. ...” — Emanuel Cleaver Quote

“First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.”

“The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.”

“What we don't need to work toward is polarizing America any greater than it is. Look, I'm up here in Washington, D.C., in the Congress of the United States, and we have, all day, a lot of verbal vomit that is doing enormous damage.”

“I am - and have always been - a Methodist.”

“I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.”

“My dad was a Methodist minister.”