“Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.”

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.