Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.