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

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

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.

The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.