Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.