Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

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.

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.