When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

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.

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.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.