Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

Everything changes but change itself.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.