“What you’re going to see as we continue to look at the race issue is a collection of civil rights leaders and African-American politicians grouped together and push the race issue to make sure that it does not move to the back-burner and they’re really gonna bring heat to the White House.”
“I obviously made a mistake, and I'm going to do everything I can to admit that and deal with it and correct it. And that's what I hope the people will give me a chance to do.”
“I think they felt, and I think many blacks would have felt the same way, that you were cheering that a murderer had gotten away, and that simply was not it.”
“Yeah but let’s be careful with it. I think a lot of people said, particularly after 9/11, he looks like a leader doesn’t necessarily seem like a leader and you talked about how America looks to him but black America, Chris, as you know and we see it in the polls, always saw this as a precarious position where we were headed and certainly Katrina just blew it over.”
