If you’re a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I’m concerned, and you’re working hard to put food on your family...
The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.
We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.
Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.
The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
I gave them a fair warning.
These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America’s resolve.
What our enemies have begun, we will finish.
We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.
A generation of reporters saw the Washington Post win a Pulitzer for exposing the scandal, and many dreamed of being the next Woodward or Bernstein. A strong and skeptical press corps is good for democracy. Often the media’s first instinct is to portray every story as a scandal, however, which presents a distorted picture of government and leaves the public cynical.
What are you doing to stop the next attack?” I asked. People nervously.
Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.
Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.
We were a perfect match. I’m a talker; Laura is a listener. I am restless; she is calm. I can get a little carried away; she is practical and down-to-earth. Above all, she is genuine and natural. There is no phoniness about her. Her appeal was immediate and constant. In August, I went to visit my family in Kennebunkport, planning to stay for a week. After one night, I flew back to Texas to be with Laura.
The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don’t be arrogant. Never complain.
I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.
When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies.
History would remember him as the liberator of Kuwait and the President who oversaw the peaceful end of the Cold War. In some ways, he was like Winston Churchill, who had been tossed out of office in 1945 just months after prevailing in World War II. The British voters felt that Churchill had completed his mission and that they wanted someone else for the next phase. Ultimately, that’s what happened to George Bush in 1992.
His father had always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back. In the words of the Bible, “To whom much is given, much is required.