My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

It takes a lot of strength to let go.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.