I think the fact that it had come down to that and left that other lower average is something that we can focus on as offering a little hope here.

One of the great pleasures of this office is that I often have a chance to do something unabashedly positive in nature.

We're painfully aware that Africa's economic development is encountering difficult obstacles.

I never made that remark to an audience that I did not get—in many cases, a standing ovation.

Africans recognize both the special development needs and the great potential of Africa.

Housing starts are up, permits are up, new home sales are up 75 percent since April of last year.

But to tell you the truth, she was doing such a wonderful job and working so hard that I didn't see as much of her as I'm going to see now that she's on the Cabinet.

I firmly believe that space enterprise will bring mankind closer together, even as we compete.

Our country's commitment to the development of air and space technology is one of the best investments the American people have ever made.

We didn't grow up, my generation, with those things. We invented them.

Today we stand on the edge of a world in which opportunities are limited only by our own imagination.