McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

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 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.

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

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

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