
We're importing oil; we're importing unemployment; we're importing inflation.
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We're importing oil; we're importing unemployment; we're importing inflation.

Our allies must have confidence in us.

We are a nation of immigrants—we are really a nation of refugees.

I know that we can meet those challenges, I know that we can answer those difficult questions, and I know that we can solve those tough problems.

Inflation has been with us 10 or 11 years.

I do have a lot of responsibilities on my shoulders, but it's one of the most challenging and, certainly, the most exciting jobs on Earth.

We must have an energy security corporation financed by a windfall profits tax on the unearned profits of the oil companies.

It's important to you and me: Our energy and economic and other domestic efforts are closely tied to our international challenges.

We will not accept this threat to our Nation's very security.

It's important to San Diego and to California and the Nation that we have a strong defense.

It's obvious that we can unify ourselves and put aside petty differences.

No one can control the stock market or predict what it's going to do.

I will nominate Anne Forrester Holloway, of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Mali.

I will nominate Robert B. Oakley, of Shreveport, La., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Zaire.

It will also improve the capabilities and efficiency of the Federal court system.

Adjustments in the rates of monthly basic pay and allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the uniformed services shall be effective on October 1, 1979.