Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!

I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his derogatory comments, by his mocking of the most vulnerable people in our society, by his marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, doesn't reflect the traditional Republican values.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.