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American public policy is run on a myth.
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.
A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
But in the free market system, you're forced to change.
I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.
The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.
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.
Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.
With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.
God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.
Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.
Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.
If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.
The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
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 kids pay for it.
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.
A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.
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 its way to greatness.
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.
Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
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 any kind of quality of life is left at all.