“As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.”
“And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.”
“Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?”
“Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.”
“You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.”
“What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”
“I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.”
“You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.”
“I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.”
“Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?”