The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

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

You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.

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

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.