"The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order."

"I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father."

"Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin."

"Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments."

"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."