We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There’s no telling what we can accomplish.

If you start pandering to young people, you’re going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he’s right about freedom’s march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It’s an idea gaining more currency.

I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I’ve let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he’s not going to ask me.

Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that’s exactly where we’re all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.

I want my country to be trusted. I don’t want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.

I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn’t go into any venture any other way.

California is very much my home, and has been for the last eight yeas. It doesn’t matter where I am, the inner me stays the same, home is wherever I happen to be living with Tracey, my companion of the last eighteen years.

I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq – all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute’s silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.