The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

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.

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

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

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 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.