“Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”

“It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is b”