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.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

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

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.