We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

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

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

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.

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