We don't think of ourselves as a dynasty. I really hope some of my grandkids will be actively involved in politics.

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

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.

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.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.