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

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

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

I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

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.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.