The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what neither could be to the other: a trusted brokering partner. It is in their interest and our interest for America to play that role.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.