The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.