"A lot of folk who have lost faith in God it's a very healthy thing because the God they lost faith in was probably an idol anyway."

"I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, a jazzman in the world of ideas."

"To be a Christian is to be a follower of the historical Jesus, who was a revolutionary Jew."

"I'm a public philosopher who believes in the power of ideas to change the world."

"Obama posed as progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency."