The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine beer opium brandy or tobacco.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.