The importance of National Hispanic Heritage Week should not be underestimated.

We need a fleet that includes more vessels that can perform our Navy's mission but that are not, as this one would be, so designed as to be prohibitively expensive to build.

Benefit payments under these Acts totaled almost $4 billion.

I do not favor the tuition tax credit approach to college students.

H.R. 10929 would result in reduction or elimination of these essential programs, and a consequent weakening of our defense posture.

The normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China has always been a goal of my administration.

To represent the public interest and advise the Congress of the Administration's position, I appointed as Chairman, William P. Adams.

To spend $2 billion in defense dollars in that way would ignore much more serious and immediate defense needs.

September 10 through 16 has been designated National Hispanic Heritage Week.

An adequate defense is the single most important concern I have as President.

I have one statement, and then I'd like to answer your questions.

The third Executive order will help us to assess the impact of legislative proposals.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution of the United States of America, and in order to establish an internal management procedure for identifying aspects of proposed Federal policies that may adversely impact…

I hope that this Government action and I expect this Government action will take root in the private sector.

There is established the Interagency Coordinating Council.

Federal facilities and Federal use of space in urban areas shall serve to strengthen the Nation's cities and to make them attractive places to live and work.

One of the most pleasant surprises that I have had as President of our country has been the quality of work done by the Central Intelligence Agency.

I know how serious uncertainty is in a person's life.