The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

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.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

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.

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

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.