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The first black president will be a politician who is black.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.