Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won