Mike Espy

I'm a frustrated artist.

— Mike Espy

I want to be the health care senator.

— Mike Espy

Don't look to me to support urban mass transit.

— Mike Espy

I do have a little rhythm.

— Mike Espy

I'm not into moral victories.

— Mike Espy

I didn't give favors to any companies.

— Mike Espy

No meat can ever be 100 percent sterile.

— Mike Espy

Medgar Evers is a true Mississippi hero.

— Mike Espy

I always said I wasn't guilty of any criminal activity.

— Mike Espy

Just because red meat has germs doesn't necessarily mean that it will make you sick.

— Mike Espy

We are a state in need of uplift in a ubiquitous way.

— Mike Espy

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

— Mike Espy

I will be a strong voice for Mississippi, and not an echo.

— Mike Espy

In a raw political sense, I want to win farm country for Bill Clinton.

— Mike Espy

If you're on a no-fly list... you probably shouldn't own a gun without careful vetting.

— Mike Espy

I was supposed to go to art school, and my father wanted me to go to law school.

— Mike Espy

I will stand up for Mississippi like no one has done before. My voice will resonate most strongly in our struggling communities.

— Mike Espy

After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office…

— Mike Espy

During the 1990s, I served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the nation's 25th secretary of agriculture.

— Mike Espy

We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just…

— Mike Espy

My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.

— Mike Espy

Health care is not equal. We have failed our rural hospitals and our rural communities because we can't guarantee affordable and accessible…

— Mike Espy

I'm someone that wants to reach across the chasm to make sure that we can collaborate with one another by race and…

— Mike Espy

We shouldn't try to turn policemen into social workers, but they should at least understand that not all offenders belong in jail.

— Mike Espy

What happened to George Floyd is an abomination. Four Minneapolis policemen used excessive force to cause his death in what appears to…

— Mike Espy

I am disappointed my grandchildren are growing up in a country still struggling to change. But it doesn't have to be this…

— Mike Espy

We made mistakes in 2018, as a candidate and as a campaign. I had not campaigned in 25 years, and people forgot…

— Mike Espy

Greater transparency is the easiest and simplest solution to prevent officers who have previously been in trouble from getting new jobs. That's…

— Mike Espy

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a…

— Mike Espy

As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed…

— Mike Espy

Demanding accountability for Mississippi's role in creating an environment that tolerated and bred hateful ideologies and violence is a small, but powerful,…

— Mike Espy

I want to make the point that, even though we had a troubled experience, we moved on from that. I moved on…

— Mike Espy

Roe versus Wade is the settled law of the land.

— Mike Espy

You've got to know what you need to correct.

— Mike Espy

I'm the proud father of three Black children.

— Mike Espy

I'm not for Medicare for all.

— Mike Espy

Mississippi is akin to an underdeveloped country.

— Mike Espy

There's no way that I could be a congressman in a California district at 32.

— Mike Espy

President Barack Obama governed with dignity and effectiveness.

— Mike Espy

The violence against unarmed Black people - names we know, and names we don't know - must end.

— Mike Espy