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. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
There’s a difference between someone who’s ‘harsh’ and someone who is ‘hard.’ Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera. Clarence Thomas Read Quote
