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

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

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.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.