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.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.