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.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.