I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. - Jim Clyburn

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? … John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. … We would have been failures if [Obama] had to do the same things we did.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.