I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.