But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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