How can a president not be an actor?
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.