"I'm not a one-issue person."
"What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs."
"The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes."
"Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit."
"Culture is central to what makes us human."
"Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation."
"The arts are what humanize science and history."
"Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status."
"I believe in our free market system."
"The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society."
"I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South."
"Individuals in the South are just like individuals any place else."
"The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality."
"#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify."
"#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice."
"My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent."
"I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton."
"It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate."
"Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment."
"The best protection against recidivism is a job."
"I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom."
"The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife."
"The government is what you've got. Politics is what you want."
"Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work."
"I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics."
