My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.