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September 2014: “On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.”

September 2014: “On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.”

February 2015: ‘If you ever come to the train station with me you’ll notice that I have great relationships with [the Somali community] because there’s an awful lot of them driving cabs and are friends of mine.”

June 2019: “Even in the days when I got there, the Democratic Party still had seven or eight old-fashioned Democratic segregationists. You’d get up and you’d argue like the devil with them. Then you’d go down and have lunch or dinner together.”

September 2019: When asked about segregation and slavery: “Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not like they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to do...

Play the radio, make sure the television—excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the—make sure that kids hear words."

June 2019: “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me boy. He always called me son.”

August 2019: “[W]hy aren’t we sending into homes of economically distressed families, whether they are of color or otherwise, why aren’t we sending into homes social workers who help the single moms or the single dads know what they should be doing raising their children…