My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

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

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

An informed patriotism is what we want.