My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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.

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 certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.