The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Jesse JacksonStatehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
Jesse JacksonWe are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.
Jesse Jackson