The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.