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When do any of us ever do enough?
The earth is bread we take and eat.
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.
"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.