Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.