Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.