We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.