 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. |
| I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. |
| I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. |
| 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. |
| I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. |
| And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role. |
| The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. |
| Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. |
| I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. |
| We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. |
| I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. |
| But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that. |
| 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 don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. |
| Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy. |
| 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. |
| Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. |
| It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think. |
| Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that. |
| I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. |
