I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

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

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

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

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

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.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.