Sparing their lives would be a step forward for Iran and the world community.

I know of no nation in a better position than to lead the world out of the morass of hatred and rivalry and to freedom for all mankind than the United States.

The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully.

Well, I could go on and on; but don't worry, I won't.

Well, the classes of 1932 faced a world in the very bottom of the Great Depression.

Things are getting better.

Perhaps the best gift that you can give to your fellow citizens—is a better understanding of that which they cannot see—the human freedom that surrounds them.

We will not let this same fate befall others in the hemisphere.

If ever there was an explanation of the difference between freedom and what they now have there, it's all told in what we've been eating here in the menu.

How much of the problem that's on all of our minds is evident-there is a sermon or a speech in the menu.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people; it's a failure of Fidel Castro and of communism.

Thank you for reaching out to our men and women in uniform, letting them know that, even though they're far away from home, we think of them.

I herewith report one new deferral of budget authority totaling $2,750,000 and two increases to previously reported deferrals.

And, if we'll all just remember, my best side is my right side.

I felt that I did not have the right to keep silent.

I can't imagine anyone who's more qualified or better suited to be at the helm once again than 'Mr. Clean,' Bill Ruckelshaus.

John M. Brennan will succeed Joseph D. Gebhardt.

I admire what you do.