You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.