I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.