By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

How can a president not be an actor?

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.

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.