We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

The earth is bread we take and eat.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.