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

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

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.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

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