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.

American public policy is run on a myth.

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

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.

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.

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

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.