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.

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

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

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.

American public policy is run on a myth.

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

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