Danny K. Davis

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

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.

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.

#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.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

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.

I believe in our free market system.

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

We have to find greater employment for these people with records.

I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.