I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserved of their scorn.

I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.