And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.