Such investments drive economic growth, generate new knowledge, create new jobs, build new industries, ensure our national security, protect the environment, and improve the health and quality of life of our people.

I call upon our youth, parents, and educators, and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate activities.

It is a tribute to the American worker and testimony to the skill, training, and dedication of our people.

Continued American leadership depends on our enduring commitment to science, to technology, to learning, to research.

I think we have a difference of opinion.

Let us build a future of peace and prosperity, of freedom and dignity for our continent and beyond.

The Endowment provides evidence of the universality of the democratic ideal.

The Endowment has helped consolidate emerging democracies—from South Africa to the former Soviet Union.

Keep in mind, we'll have a press conference later, too.

Our relationship works.

It has been a real honor for me to welcome the Prime Minister and Mrs. Chretien to Washington.

The report demonstrates the National Endowment for Democracy's unique contribution to the task of promoting democracy worldwide.

I want this woman at the Canadian state dinner.

We're delighted to have you.

I call upon all Americans to join in remembering former American prisoners of war who suffered the hardships of enemy captivity.

In each instance, it has been able to act in ways that government agencies could not.

We can't let them get in the way of moving the path toward peace forward.

And the rest of us will creep off into the sunset.