Jesse Jackson

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

I am a journalist.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

People always grow and mature.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

I want to make America better!

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.