"The best way not to be caught up in endless war is to avoid starting one in the first place."
"We need to have a secretary of education who actually believes in public education."
"I believe in public education. And in order to strengthen it, some things are very complex...we have got to pay teachers more. And we have got to lift up the teaching profession."
"the idea on Sunday of working to strike fear in the hearts of communities, you know, the same Sunday when a lot of Americans are going to be gathering in churches to hear messages about our responsibi..."
"I'm not staking my candidacy on the idea that we've resolved racial injustice in my city during my time as mayor. This is a problem that was there when I arrived."
"We need comprehensive, coordinated, ambitious national action. And it's why I believe the Douglass Plan, something that is as ambitious in scope as the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe is called for."
"Well, it sounds like a face-saving way to recognize that he's been on the wrong side of the law throughout. There are many number of ways to do research on issues like immigration, but tinkering with ..."
"As president, our enforcement priority would be on public safety, and we would also be working to establish a pathway to citizenship so that people with these issues could get them cleared up."
"This is an effort to address systemic racism in our country. And we've been developing this for months."
"Because I couldn't get it done. My community is in anguish right now because of an officer-involved shooting, a black man, Eric Logan, killed by a white officer."
"I'm sick of these things being talked about in political terms, in theoretical terms. I think it's a show, sometimes. It's people's lives."