I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

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

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

Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

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.

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."