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

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

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 think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

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.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.