But in the middle of that desperate time, there was a miracle: a baby born with a bullet in its arm. We need to hear about these miracles in these desperate times because they are the blessings that can unite us when some in the world try…

If too many of our kids don't have health insurance; it's time to take the bullet out.

If we have more black men in prison than are in our colleges and universities, then it's time to take the bullet out.

Our God is big enough for that.

Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates.

A few weeks ago, I attended a service at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the LA Riots. After a jury acquitted 4 police officers of beating Rodney King—a beating that was filmed and flashed around…

If we want to stop the cycle of poverty, then we need to start with our families.

Are we our brother's keeper, our sister's keeper?

The fact is, is that I opposed this war from the start. So you're about four-and-a-half years late on leadership on this issue.

So, you're about four-and-a-half years late on leadership on this issue.

McCain/Kennedy says people that are here illegally get a special pathway. They're not like all the over immigrants in the world that want to come to this great country.

I'm not running to do the easy things, so I defend with no reservation our proposal to offer the people who harvest our crops, tend our gardens, work in our restaurants, care for our children and clean our homes a chance to be legal…

We impose fines, fees and other requirements as punishment. And if the path to citizenship we offer them is special, it's because it's harder, longer and more expensive than the path offered to those immigrants who come here legally.

Pandering for votes on this issue while offering no solutions of the problem amounts to doing nothing, and doing nothing is silent amnesty.

By the time all these guys talk, 50,000 more people are going to be dead.

By the time all these guys talk, 50,000 more people are going to be dead. They're going to be dead. And I tell you, I guarantee you, we have the capacity, by setting up a no-fly zone, to shut down the janjaweed.

Let me tell you something: Nobody asked anybody else whether they're gay in those holes, those foxholes, number one.

Nobody asked anybody else whether they're gay in those holes, those foxholes, number one.