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.

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.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

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.

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.

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.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.