The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.
We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.
Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.
Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.