We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.