We know there are 26 other states looking at resolutions or legislation like Prop. 209. Certainly this is a case that the Supreme Court ought to have the final word on.

As it stands now, close to 8 million voters could be at the mercy of these faulty, unreliable and decertified machines. Californians deserve to go to the polls knowing that their vote will be counted, not discarded.

[It is] not a matter for individual states to attempt to formulate their own rules and procedures. School teachers and doctors are not substitutes for INS agents.

[But the ACLU argues that ending assistance to women and minorities will open the door to the discrimination that affirmative action was intended to remedy. In 1978,] The City of Los Angeles gave 2 percent of its contracts to minority and women business enterprises. Sacramento gave zero percent. Now those numbers are up to 10-15 percent, ... It (Proposition 209) is really resegregation in California.

This is a military and executive scandal.

[Even as America wrestles with hate crime legislation, its advocates recognize the origins of free-speech arguments.] Laws grow out of historical context. What is appropriate in Germany may not be appropriate in the U.S., ... I don't think one society should be able to impose its values on another.