We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.