Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.