I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.