Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.