To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
I don’t think it’s a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage – I may be in the minority in believing that.
I’m in an interracial marriage.
I either run or try to play basketball every day.
I’m not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don’t.
I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
The bureaucracy is not great. I don’t think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you’ve got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
If you don’t meet the standards, then you don’t qualify.
Let’s face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
The African American’s relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen’s African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
There haven’t been fundamental structural changes in America. There’s been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.