We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, but he was unfailingly interested in them, sympathetic, confiding, entering into their lives in ways few fathers ever do. It was a though he was in league with them.

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

I think there is going to be no peace in the Middle East unless the United States steps forward.