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

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

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

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

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.

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

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.