We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.