Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I don't have too much time for fiction.

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.