The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

Why, when two people start living together, do they end up hurting each other so much? Maybe that’s an indication that too much of anything isn’t good.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence