If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

I'm not smart enough to lie

Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

How can a president not be an actor?