“What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that ...” — Henry Louis Gates Quote

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.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

Most people want a normal centrist approach. But politicians in the center have to show them results.

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.

American prides itself on being centrist, on not having the European tendency of flirting with extremist groups.