I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Stick to your dreams and determine that you're going to make them come true.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.