American public policy is run on a myth.

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

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

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.

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

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

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