I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.