And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

What worries me most about Trump, other than all of the other crazy things, is that I believe that he wants power and I believe from my point of view that power corrupts, and that the whole purpose of our founding fathers and America was to contain power.

I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in civil war. I see things in personal terms. I just can't see sending one of my sons - or your son or daughter - to fight in a civil war, where on one side we have a dictator, who in all likelihood gassed his people.