Racially balanced isn't the term that our board uses but it does have a policy that clearly states that when we do a redistricting we should not affect the diversity of a school any more than is necessary when drawing a line.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced. We don't tolerate that in modern American society. We certainly didn't tolerate it in the U.S. Army and we don't tolerate it here. It's wrong.

[When compared with other Southeastern states,] we're behind most of them on starting salary, ... Clearly, targeting starting salaries is important because that's who you're trying to bring into the teaching profession.

I didn't even know he was on that policy advisory board. The council's action was to remove him from those boards. Whether that one was mentioned by name or not, I think that was our intention.

Every institutional sector you can point to, I'll show you a racial disparity. When you have a racially structured system, there are more black people at the bottom because there's a dual system that sorts them at the bottom.