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

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

War is sweet to those who have never fought.

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.