Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
When I was in the White House I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
My constant prayer my number one foreign goal is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
Because I know about the Holy Land I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life and – but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
On balance my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary it is always an evil never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Unfortunately after Sept. 11 there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
