The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

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

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

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.

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

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.

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.