If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that’s it.

I’m in the kitchen and I’m not walking out.

I don’t know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.

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

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide’s removal, and continue to deteriorate.

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn’t been too friendly to mine.

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.

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

The people who couldn’t get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

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.