These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily available and they didn't deliver the resources and I think people died because of this and these are tough questions that need to be answered.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.

I don't think those messages really get through. I think people know this demonstration is about the war in Iraq, and I think that theme overrides any other messages that may be off-message. You get what I'm saying? I think at every peace demonstration you have many voices, but I think the central message is about the war in Iraq.