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.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.