Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.