I have concluded that it is in our security interest to continue to assist them in maintaining a credible nuclear force.

This is the latest in a series of important steps my administration has taken to ensure that dairy farmers have the economic incentive they need to produce ample supplies of milk and thereby reduce inflationary pressure.

We are determined to work as peacefully as possible to achieve the release of our hostages as early as we possibly can.

My hope is that all countries represented here... will join with us in bringing a quick and peaceful resolution to the problem which afflicts not only the United States but all countries.

We hold the Government of Iran fully responsible for the well-being and the safe return of every single person.

I have today signed H.R. 4167, which will support milk prices at between 80 and 90 percent of parity for the next 2 years.

Our inner strength, our confidence in ourselves, I think, is completely adequate.

The United States shares the view that only sustained intercommunal talks can lead to a just and lasting settlement of the Cyprus problem.

It would be a mistake for the people of our country to have aroused within them hatred toward anyone; not against the people of Iran, and certainly not against Iranians who may be in our country as our guests.

This is a complicated and difficult matter.

This bill will provide an additional $1,350 million, a total of $1.6 billion this winter.

We stand here as a sober and determined group, the President and the key Members of Congress.

For the first time, five Federal agencies and departments have agreed to fill a specific percentage of the jobs created by their economic development programs with the hardcore unemployed.

Failure to pass adequate energy legislation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil is a clear and present danger to the security of the United States.

This effort is also consistent with the President's goals of targeting Federal resources to those with the greatest need and utilizing existing programs and resources more effectively.

Approximately 80,000 permanent, private sector jobs will be made available to the unemployed through economic development projects funded in FY 1980.

We will expedite the distribution of these funds.

Their efforts to direct a greater number of jobs created by Federal economic development programs to the hardcore unemployed are central to the employment initiatives announced by the White House last April.