“I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.”

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.

You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.

The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.

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

I’m a patriot of the heart.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people’s idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.