Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.

While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.