Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.