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I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.

For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.