Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

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

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

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

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

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.