I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

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

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

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

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

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.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.