Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

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.