Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

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

As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.

I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.