I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.