A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.