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!

Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.

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.