Harvey Gantt Quotes

Harvey Gantt — American Politician

Harvey Bernard Gantt is an American architect and Democratic politician active in North Carolina. The first African-American student to be admitted to Clemson University after attending Iowa State University. He graduated from Clemson with honors in architecture, earned a master's at MIT, and established a practice in Charlotte with a partner... (wikipedia)

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayor's office.