International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.