If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

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.

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.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed

There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.