A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is un-ugly.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.

Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.