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.

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've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.