I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

And look what it gets President Bush: It just gets him a kick in the rear, ... That's what they've done to him, and they've done it to him at a time when he's vulnerable, and they've done it at the expense of a perfectly fine human being.

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, And to Versailles, although to go so far is A thing not quite consistent with your ease, And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is To my describing what the traveller sees. You who have ever been to Paris, know; And you who have not been to Paris--go!