“Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.”

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.

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.

So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.

The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.