The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.