Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.

In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel in, whatever it is, the initial response from the public tends to be overwhelmingly negative, because basically we're kind of raining on folks' parades. As time goes on, the Muhammad Ali's and all the people that raised those issues, they then become heroes later when people reflect on the courage they showed and the issues that they raised. And Donald Trump is in danger of being a more and more reviled figure as the years go on.

We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.