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I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.

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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.

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Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.

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

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Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

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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.

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

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Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

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He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

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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.

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