Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.