Quotes By Charles Rangel

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

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

No one looks forward to a recount.

If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

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.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

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.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

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.