It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Let all children come unto me.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.