I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

America's Dad' is what we called Bill Cosby. And we called him that because, well, what a revolutionary way to put it. Through him, we were thumbing our noses at the long, dreary history for black men in America by elevating this one to a paternal Olympus. In the 1980s, he made the black American family seem 'just like us.'

I just want to be that to my children. The ultimate father.