I want to salute Reverend Moon, who is the founder of <i>The Washington Times</i> and also of <i>Tiempos del Mundo</i>. A lot of my friends in South … - George H. W. Bush

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

And I want to be there for you if you get a bad bounce in life, and no doubt you will for the seas do indeed get rough.

Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep", and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.