If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

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

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to ease the plight of man and the hardships of our imperfect world. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.