When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.