Chaka Fattah

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.