Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend immediate reimbursement of criminal justice costs, because these conditions can now be met, but we urge further study of the costs of health care and education before impact aid is provided.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

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.

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.