There is no greater tragedy than the young boy or girl who forfeits a future to the enslavement of dangerous drugs and narcotics.

Some day the light will shine.

He is that rarest of all visitors to this house--a man who is nonpolitical by law.

Our work is not done until that answer is found, even if the process requires years of our lives.

I will make that announcement in due time.

Our issues are new. Our alignments are new. Our styles are new. Our slogans are new.

So, not as partisans, not as Democrats, and not as Republicans, but only and always as Americans let us look to the good that has been wrought.

We have a big job to do in the months ahead and with your help, we are going to do it.

When this Republic was born, Thomas Jefferson looked about at the energy and the creativity that stirred among the people in the first years of our freedom.

Nowhere else--in no other society on this earth--are so many so devoted to leaving this earth better than they found it.

No man could serve where I have served now for more than 4 years and 5 long months--in this great office of all the people--without sensing that we are once again in 'a new time.'