My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.

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.

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

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

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.