We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

The right wing can use anything, and we have to make it very clear and I make it very clear that my love for the president in terms of protecting him and respecting him but also correcting, now all three of those are crucial, and if I can do all three, then the right wing can use it whatever they want, and I'm just clear where I stand, over against them but also critical when the president leans toward the strong, rather than the weak.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.