Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.