Let's also say that the Justice Department and the courts are making sure, as I've said in a speech before, that when Jamal sends his résumé in, he's getting treated the same as when Johnny sends his résumé in.Now, are we going to have suddenly the same number of CEOs, billionaires, etc., as the white community? In 10 years? Probably not, maybe not even in 20 years. But I guarantee you that we would be thriving, we would be succeeding. We wouldn't have huge numbers of young African American men in jail.

You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.