Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

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.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

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

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.