Alphonso Jackson

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.