We want to know what more we at the national level can do to help.

I hope you will never forget this wall behind me, and goodness knows, I hope you never need it again.

Our strategy of deficit reduction and investment in our people has begun to work.

We must give Americans the security they need to thrive in the new economy.

Overall, the American economy is healthy and strong.

That's the way Presidents are.

I want to thank those 50,000 Americans who showed that our people are not cynical, they haven't given up on citizenship, and they are prepared to take control of their future.

I met a young man not very long ago in Albany, New York, an eighth grader who has done a research paper on volcanoes entirely based on resources in Australia.

It is against the law for businesses to hire workers who are illegal immigrants and are not authorized to work in the United States.

This Executive order keeps Federal contracts from going to businesses that knowingly hire illegal workers.

It doesn't mean we can allow individuals and families and communities to go back to a time when they had to fend for themselves.

I want to say a special word, too, to Charles Haley.

It remains the policy of this Administration to enforce the immigration laws to the fullest extent.

I believe that the signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 last week will help to increase those possibilities.

This year I thought was especially important for the team.

It was a good year for professional football and for reminding us all that talent is never enough.

The council's work may be done, but the Nation's work is just beginning.

Adherence to the general policy of not contracting with providers that knowingly employ unauthorized alien workers will promote economy and efficiency in Federal procurement.