Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.