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

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.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

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

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

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.

Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.