There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

I had to steal to survive.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

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