We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.