“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,”

It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,

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

I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.

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.

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.

But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.

The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.

Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.