I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

The latest national polls show a tightening in the race to the White House, especially in key states like Ohio and Florida. But when it comes down to it, winning in November [2016] will depend on which candidate has a viable path to 270 electoral votes.

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

I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.