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.

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

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

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

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.

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

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.