I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
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.
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
