[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

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

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

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

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

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.

I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.