I mean, something that was never brought up before but is now painfully apparent is that if we did what the plaintiffs in the court case want, we would be consigning a very large number of Haitians, in all probability, to some sort of…

Keep in mind that we've got more than they've had in a long time, and we need to go forward with this program.

I expect there will be a lot more as we go along.

I just don't think we should shut the Congress down while we all look for them.

But our position is different.

I'm pleased that it's ending.

We want to give people some credit for community service they do while they're in college.

National service will be America at its best, building community, offering opportunity, and rewarding responsibility.

I think we ought to do that.

National service is nothing less than the American way to change America.

The lesson of our whole history is that honoring service and rewarding responsibility is the best investment America can make.

I believe they are dead wrong.

I would discourage the American people from overreacting to this.

The great challenge of your generation is to prove that every person here in this great land can live up to the fullest of their God-given capacity.

Developing the capacity of the American people to be all they can be is perhaps the most important job that I have as President.

If that is so, if that is true, my fellow Americans, and if you believe it, it must therefore follow that each of us has an obligation to serve.

This morning I got a report on that, and it's my understanding that we are going through the regular agencies and that the request will be processed promptly.

I think Mrs. Nunamaker is right; we are on the right track.