A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

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.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.