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.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

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

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