I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.