John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
- Game Change
Some days later, Bill received a phone call from George W. Bush. The current and former presidents spoke more often than almost anyone knew; from time to time, when 43 was bored, he would call 42 to chew the fat. In this case, Bush tucked away at Camp David, had a more distinct objective. He wanted to reassure his predecessor that he didn't think Clinton was a racist.
Michael Piller
- Benjamin Sisko to the Wormhole Aliens "Emissary"
It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching not just for answers to our questions but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day and we explore the galaxy trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge and that is why I am here - not to conquer you with weapons or with ideas. But to coexist and learn.
Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore
- Q to Picard "All Good Things..."
For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you not mapping stars and studying nebulae but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
- The Gettysburg Address
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Barack Obama
- 2004 Democratic Nominating Convention Keynote Address
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us - the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of "anything goes." Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America - there’s the United States of America.
Ronald Reagan
- The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
Richard Nixon
- Richard Nixon's Farewell Speech
It's only a beginning - always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes; because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
