It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.