Barack Obama is an intellectual.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Obamaism is the future of America.

There’s too much risk in loving, ’the young boy said, ‘no, ’said the old man, ‘there’s too much risk in not.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.