Quotations

«I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.»

«There's another side of the story that ought to be told.»

«Our Churches sought to do the same through teaching preaching missions, social and political action. We have always been a leader in progressive movements in faith, action, government and mission. But, I think we may have erred in not paying enough attention to the potentially positive role of business and the corporate multinational community in seeking solutions to the problems of the poor.»

«This is my first play.»

«With this, I had to learn and develop a character over time.»

«really helped bail out the civil-rights movement.»

«Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.»

«I was surprised and not surprised,»

«It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn. That's OK, and there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends. All the grain that's grown in Iowa and Illinois, and the huge industrial output of the Midwest has to come down the Mississippi River, and there has to be a port to handle it, to keep a functioning economy in the United States of America.»

«I think the whole movement, both in the black community and in the federal government and in big business, is sort of floundering.»