I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.