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.

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

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

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

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

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

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

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

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

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.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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

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

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.