That most black candidates rarely ever get to.
"The things I'm trying to do are in America's strategic interest. Unfortunately, neither Colin Powell nor Condoleezza Rice has had much on-the-ground experience in Africa, and the Rumsfeld group has no interest. As soon as we get something put together, something falls apart. And the mood of expansion, and optimism from the 1980's that we profited by, when everybody had surplus capital, has now shifted — and everybody's scared. We talk globalism, but we're pulling back."
| A quote from U.S. senatorial hopeful Andrew Young in David M. Halbfinger's New York Times article "Young May Try to Add 'Senator' to Résumé"
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