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

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.

First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.

I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.