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

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

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.

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.

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

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