Success is not measured by what we accumulate but by the positive impact we have on others.

President Carter's mother, Lillian Carter, will visit the Sahel region of West Africa as an emissary of the President.

The struggle for human liberties is long and difficult, but it will be won.

We are all sobered by this reminder that, so late in the 20th century, a person can be sent to jail simply for asserting his basic human rights.

I speak today with the sadness the whole world feels at the sentence given Anatoly Shcharanskiy.

This is a sober time.

All of the information contained in this report is available to Congress during annual appropriations and oversight hearings.

We don't expect to solve all the problems of the world, but we do expect to leave the economic summit with a more thorough understanding.

I recommend that the statutory reporting requirement for this report be changed from once every year to once every three years.

I will nominate Jane Hurt Yarn, of Atlanta, Ga., to be a member of the Council on Environmental Quality.

I will nominate William K. Smith, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Railway Association for a 6-year term.

This visit will last 2 days.

I recognize the economic interdependence of the people of the world.

We leave this morning for two trips combined into one.

There is established the President's Commission on Pension Policy.

I will nominate George M. Lane, of Westminster, Mass., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Yemen Arab Republic.

I urge the Committee to exercise its authority to extend the ratification deadline for ERA.

The Commission shall conduct a comprehensive review of retirement, survivor, and disability programs existing in the United States.