“My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with ...” — Jesse Jackson Quote

“My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.”

“In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.”

“Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.”

“When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.”

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

“There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.”

“Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.”

“I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.”

“I went to bed on the night of Brexit, of that vote for leaving the E.U., and I said to everyone it will be a 70/30: nobody wants to leave the E.U. I woke up on the bus in Glastonbury, and everybody had their heads in their hands. They could not believe it. I could not believe it.”

“As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.”

“The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”

“By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.”