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

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

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

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

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

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.