"I think it is a really important issue that I am going to stay on until no one is being mistreated."
"These laws have been on the books since the 1980's and most of them need to be modernized to reflect current scientific advances in AIDS research."
"I know your work very intimately and I just have to take this moment to thank you so much because all of you are doing life-affirming work."
"Young African-American and Latino boys, they are being suspended and kicked out of school for a variety of reasons."
"I am a trained clinical social worker by profession. My background is mental health."
"There are young people who die every day on the streets of our cities who are disproportionately, in many cases, people of color because of the everyday violence that we experience."
"Any program that sees a reduction means it is less that we can do for the communities in America."
"I want to support and make sure all of the President's initiatives are fully funded."
"But what you would see, though, with young men of color, this becomes a pipeline from the cradle to the prison because majority of them never come back to school, and they end up in behavior that send..."
"I am so pleased to see in the President's initiative funding to train mental health professionals."
"Funding now is about a fifth lower than 2002."