I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.