We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.