Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.