Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

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

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

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.

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