“Some of this stuff is really very serious. It's not like before when the Republicans sort of said that the party was reaching out to the black vote when they really weren't.”
“My assessment of his role on the council is that he has been effective. He has gotten himself into the thick of the baseball politics with his own backing and plan, and has carved out some attention to development projects in Southeast as a part of the construction.”
“The question in my mind is whether the civil rights community acted fast enough, ... Here we are at the deadline, and how many black people know what we know about his record? It doesn’t put us in a mobilization mode. And this is a war.”
“Honestly, he's not replaceable. He's just a brilliant, wonderful person. I'm certainly interested, but we have a long way to go before getting into those conversations. He's still here and we're proud to have him.”
“Some people are leaping off the ship, especially with respect to Iraq. It's a pattern going on in a number of places where the president has been moving around trying to explain his policy in Iraq.”
