“As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.”

I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.

We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

I love theology and some philosophy.

First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.

I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.

People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.

Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…

So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.

You deal with their balance over the long run.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.

You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I’d have to do ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ and ‘Crazy Train,’ and it was a really weird combination.

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

I’ve never had to fend for a child’s life, which sounds very terrifying.

How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.