Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

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.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.