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

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

How do you make things fair?

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