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

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

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

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

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.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.