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

If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.