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

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

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

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

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

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.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.