Let me tell you never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

September 11 was terrible but if one goes back over the history of the IRA what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that he is a centrist just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Americans believe with all their heart the vast majority of them and the vast majority of Floridians that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

This is the greatest society in all of human history the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

In a typical history book black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.