It has also shown up in a better attitude of consumers and business investments in the future.

It depends not on the identity of the President but on the common thrust and strength of our people.

I have complete confidence in him.

The function that she will perform is extremely important.

I'm very pleased this morning to be able to sign two very important pieces of legislation.

I particularly wanted to have this morning, an opportunity to demonstrate as vividly as possible the interrelationship between competence in government and the humane concern about people in our country.

This must be corrected without delay.

Some areas of concern include:--Use of consultants to perform work of a policy-making or managerial nature which should be retained directly by agency officials.

In order to improve the use of consultants, I want you to:

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of justice.

NATO was the middle-aged alliance, that new initiatives would be useful in redirecting it to new tasks.

We recognize that Turkey is the keystone of NATO strength in the eastern Mediterranean.

My own analysis is that the items should be separated.

The notion of a fresh look at future tasks in the political field, the defense field, and the defense procurement field was met with general satisfaction.

I have instructed the Secretary of Defense to search out opportunities for buying increased European defense equipment where this is competitive.

I am looking forward to reviewing the progress that's been made in each of these three fields.

I believe I feel better about the prospect for some progress in the Middle East than I ever have before.

We will continue to make the Alliance the heart of our foreign policy.