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

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

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.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

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

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.