Quoted

Cornel West (John Mottern for the Washington Post)

"That's not my calling! Yeah, brother, you find me in a crack house before you find me in the White House. I'll go into the crack house before I ever go that far inside."

-- Cornel West, the Princeton professor, civil rights activist and cultural gadfly, in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on whether he'd take a White House job if offered. You get the impression that was never going to be much of an issue.