I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse..

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop..

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations..

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that..

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture..

A nation can't get strong on political pablum..

The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive cap….

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when an….

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discri….

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most el….

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their ki….

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is ….

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare,….

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who ….

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade..

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford..

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass..

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued i….

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart..

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of ….

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave..