“THEY COME because their hearts say to them, as mine did, ‘If only I can get to America.'”

When Arnold spoke those words, I cheered. Within the Party of Lincoln there has always been an understanding of the most important of all of the “laws of nature and nature’s God”: that all men are created equal. When Arnold articulated the hope that has for centuries driven human beings to extraordinary lengths to make it to these shores, he captured the convention, and beyond the convention, a vast television audience at home and abroad that consists of everyone who has ever dreamed of coming to America.