The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.