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

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

How do you make things fair?

I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.

if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

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.

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.

There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,

The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.

You’re a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what’s your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though… But he got a billion in tha bank fo’ sho’!