Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.