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Sons love moms forevermore.
I'm not a predictable black liberal.
My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.
Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].
I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.
Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).
There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together.
In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.
In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.
The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.
Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country, they are upset about Donald Trump.
Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.
I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.
When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty?
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.
When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.