“Our biggest problem is that local polluters have poisoned our communities year after year with impunity. “

“The American people have been constantly manipulated and made to fear the Russian threat when it is the United States that has been the aggressive power.”

“I believe that Americans are the most uninformed, misinformed and ideologized people on the planet.”

“Neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s are still predominantly nonwhite, lower-income and economically disenfranchised.”

“If I say I’m black, I’m black.”