“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