I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.

No man is a failure who has friends.

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

It all depends on what the report says -- if it's an open-and-shut case or if it's ambiguous,