My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

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.

I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here lawfully. I, as chair of this commission, would not be a party to any system that I felt was an unpardonable intrusion into the private lives of people. If I felt that what we are recommending would be such an intrusion I can assure you that recommendation would never have seen the light of day, not even as a pilot program.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

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.

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