Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.