Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

"Owning a home is a part of the American Dream. It is a person's private piece of paradise."

"Not to be argumentative, but the Secretary was mayor of San Antonio, the second-largest city in Texas. I was mayor of the largest city in the State of Missouri."

"I hate discrimination and all of its manifestations."

"The one department that I think the whole world recognized as having the most serious problems in the Federal Government on the issue of discrimination was the Department of Agriculture."