I Think If We Are Actually Going

My Parents Were Always Philosophizing About How To Bring About Change. To Me, People Who Didn't Try To Make The World A Better Place Were Strange.

I'm Used To People Not Paying Me A Whole Lot Of Attention And Underestimating Me And, Frankly, For Me A Big Challenge Is To Have People Believe That I Can Be The President Of The United States.

Illinois Has Less Than A 12 Percent Black Population And I Won With 55 Percent Of The Vote.

The Really Important Victory Of The Civil Rights Movement Was That It Made Racism Unpopular, Whereas A Generation Ago At The Turn Of The Last Century, You Had To Embrace Racism To Get Elected To Anything.

I Was The Only Person Of Color In The Senate, And My Colleagues Were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms And Trent Lott.