I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.