“I'm down for you, so ride with me.My enemies your enemies,Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.”

“I was raised in the city, shittyEver since I was an itty bitty kittyDrinkin' liquor out my momma's tittyAnd smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,And drinking liquor til' you out cold”

“Even a genius has his questions.”

“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”

“You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.”

“If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.”

“My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America.”

“I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.”