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

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.