We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

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

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

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.