We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

What works in the real world is cooperation.

In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.