It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.

The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.