He wasn't in World War II and neither was his speech writer.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings

In 1944, we were in the middle of a world war, and Egypt stood at the crossroads in the middle of the Mediterranean. It was not, perhaps, precisely the right moment in diplomatic history to go and try to make a claim on a coin.

The euro was heralded as the most significant event since World War II, and so far it's not working out the way they intended. I'd rather not make a bet on what the euro will do. I'd rather focus on the companies.