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

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.