You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

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

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.