No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

America's best days are yet to come.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing the entry of Mexican labor into this country on much the same basis you proposed, although I have not put it into the sense of restoring the bracero program.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.