I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

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.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

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.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest