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.

The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.