We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

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.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.