English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

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

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.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.