I think it is neither necessary or wise, and it could have numerous unwanted consequences.

Government cannot solve all of our problems, but it surely must help us solve many of them.

I am proposing a balanced budget.

It will keep interest rates low, allowing our people to start new businesses, buy a home or a new car.

With strong growth, low interest rates, low inflation, millions more jobs, record exports, more savings and investment, and higher incomes, the Nation is enjoying what such experts as Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve…

Now, for the first time in decades, public opinion of federal agencies is markedly on the rise.

We are in the breach.

Learning has got to become a lifetime endeavor.

We really are moving into a time where more people from more walks of life will have a chance to rise higher and to live out more of their dreams than at any time in history.

The only way we can ever do it is if we maintain the right blend of local control of our schools, State leadership, but adherence to high national standards.

I think it's very important that the American people respond to the challenge that I laid out last night to make American education the best in the world.

We have to give everybody the tools to make the most of their own lives.

I'm committed to mobilizing a citizen army of a million people to be trained as tutors and to be willing to tutor children in every community in this country.

Our country will miss her.

We don't have a lot of time.

When the American people make up their mind to do something, they can get out ahead of the leaders in a hurry, and that's a good thing.

We must start with the elemental principle that there should be national standards of excellence in education.

I wanted to come here because I know a lot about what you've done here and what you're trying to do.