I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

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

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

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

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

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.