If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!