The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.