I've been called worse on the basketball court.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.