Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.