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

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

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.

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

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.