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

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.

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.