The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

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.

American public policy is run on a myth.

The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.

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

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