It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.

I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.