I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

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

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

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

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.

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.