Quote of the Week

“If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House. There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.”

– U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaking of the unemployment crisis in the black community in the Miami Herald, 9-18-11

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