A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.