The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

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.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

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.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.