To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

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.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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.

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.