“Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and mu...” — Roy Cooper Quote

“Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol grounds.”

“Too many of our teachers are working multiple jobs - and it's still not enough.”

“A lot of us have the same goals of wanting a great future for our kids and good paying jobs and having clean water when you turn on the tap.”

“I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires me.”

“To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.”

“We can respect our disagreements, but we must cherish our democracy.”

“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”

“This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.”

“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.”

“We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.”

“I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.”