you can't just heely away from your problems forever

I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.

Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.