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

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.

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.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

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

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

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