The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.