It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.