Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"This is one of the committees, I think, where there is an attempt to avoid having fact-free debates."

"If we give up our power to change things, we do so because we are blaming instead of fixing."

"I hate cancer. I can't think of a human being that I hate, but I hate cancer."

"This is the city that attracted courageous leaders who slammed slavery into the junkpile of days gone by."