Quotes By Charles Rangel

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

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

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.

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.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.