Quotes from Charles Rangel

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

My father was absolutely no good.