Political Quotes

“I oppose the Solomon amendment and support the substitute amendment. To make English our official language limits our Nation. English is our official language. It is our common language. We always have used English. It did not take a law in this Congress to do that. It has not taken 200 years to do it. We do it because we want to. To file a document in court in the United States, or a public record, it has to be in English or an English translation. Our citizenship ceremonies are in English, even though we did have one aberration of a Federal judge doing it in Arizona. But it has to be in English, by statute. Furthermore, English only is unwarranted because two of our States, New Mexico and Hawaii, have two official languages. In Hawaii it is English and Hawaiian, and in New Mexico it is English and Spanish. I hope the Puerto Rican voters would choose statehood and integrate English into their language.”