What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.