If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

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.

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

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.

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.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.