When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.