In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Failure has no friends.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.