While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

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.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.