America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.