Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... 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, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

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

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.