May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.