My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

Segregation and affirmative action are identical phenomena which harness state auspices to impose racist dogma.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.