With That In Mind And In Celebration

Reasonable, Even Intelligent People Can, And Frequently Do, Disagree On How Best To Achieve Peace In The Middle East, But, Peace Must Be The Goal Of Our Foreign Policy Tools, Whether They Be By The Stick Or By The Carrot.

Peace Cannot Come From Punishing The Palestinian People.

As A People Of Faith, We Know That Prayer Is A Powerful Instrument. And As One Nation Under God, We Know That Many Times Our Most Powerful Tool Is Prayer.

The President's Announcement Sounded Less Like A National Energy Plan Than Like A Page From An Election-year Play Book. This Administration's Plan To Reduce Obscene Oil Company Profits Is To Regulate Them Less.

But Through World Wars And A Great Depression, Through Painful Social Upheaval And A Cold War, And Now Through The Attacks Of September 11, 2001, Our Nation Has Indeed Survived.