African american Quote by Rodney Alexander

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional…

— Ed Koch

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972…

— George McGovern

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged…

— Pete Wentz

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or…

— Jessica Valenti

I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.

— Michael Korda

I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

— Luis Gutierrez

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was…

— Tim Scott

I was very political when JFK ran.

— Bob Newhart

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

— Alexandra Kerry

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short…

— Vernon Jones

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is…

— John Edwards