If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.