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

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

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.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

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