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

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

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

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

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

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."

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.