Submitted May 25, 1978

Our commitment is to continue, in spite of constant discouragement, in spite of political costs, to move toward a resolution of the issue.

Energy is inexorably linked to our own prosperity at home and also to our security as a nation in the entire world.

He's a man of absolute integrity.

I don't know anyone in the world that I am more convinced wants peace than Anwar Sadat.

The special relationship between the United States and Israel still stands.

Every year we delay in establishing a national energy policy perhaps brings us I year closer to disaster.

I'm convinced that if we sever our relationship with the moderate Arab nations, it would almost prevent any further, future progress on peace.

I'm deeply concerned about your State and deeply hopeful that this meeting today will lead to that bright future in the distance.

I'm also committed to fair and firm enforcement of a new Federal strip mine law.

Illinois has a great tradition of insisting upon equality of opportunity.

We've added a net increase, with your help, of 5 1/2 million jobs in our country, and the unemployment rate has been dropped from 8 percent to 6 percent.

advance text: address before a joint session of the Illinois State Legislature

I think that there's no one who has done more for American veterans.

An act to establish a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution and to establish a trust fund to provide a stipend for such…

I'm very proud to be here, to share with you this morning some of my thoughts about the responsibilities of public service.

Submitted May 26, 1978

I'm very grateful, too, for the political wisdom concentrated here, as well as the governmental wisdom.