Anyone Who Thinks That The Vice-president Can

National Isolation Breeds National Neurosis.

Fortunately, The Time Has Long Passed When People Liked To Regard The United States As Some Kind Of Melting Pot, Taking Men And Women From Every Part Of The World And Converting Them Into Standardized, Homogenized Americans. We Are, I Think, Much More Mature And Wise Today. Just As We Welcome A World Of Diversity, So We Glory In An America Of Diversity -- An America All The Richer For The Many Different And Distinctive Strands Of Which It Is Woven.

Life's Unfairness Is Not Irrevocable; We Can Help Balance The Scales For Others, If Not Always For Ourselves.

Like Many Things In Our National Life, We Miscalculated. We Overestimated Our Ability To Control Events, Which Is One Of The Great Dangers Of A Great Power. Power Tends To Be A Substitute For Judgment And Wisdom.

My Philosophy Has Always Been That Benefits Should Percolate Up Rather Than Trickle Down.