“I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.”

We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.

Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.

And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.

When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Everyone has said I got my own sound.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I grew up listening to everybody.

To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.