And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

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

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.