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

The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

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

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

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.