It was during these Kennedy-Johnson years that this nation made an unalterable commitment to heal the racial divisions that had estranged South from North and black from white for more than a century.

More than any President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson reminded the American people that poverty has no place in a land that is as rich as this nation.

Just think back to what life was like in 1961.

I never knew either Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy, but I can never forget the impact that their administrations had on my home State of Georgia.

I leave you with my pledge that I continue to be committed to the goals of the Great Society.

I will not let statistics obliterate human realities if I am elected President.

I see an equally important task confronting the next President, as well.

Too many bureaucrats learn the hard way to accept the creed.

I want a law which will shut down outdated agencies and programs once and for all.

Halfway measures are not enough.

The powerful few who benefit from waste and confusion, and their political allies are the loudest voices raised in protest.

I think we can confine government to its proper role and make it an effective, efficient instrument of human needs.

I find it unacceptable that we have in effect condoned the effort of some Arab countries to tell American businesses that, in order to trade with one country or company, they must observe certain restrictions based on race or religion.

We have not had that kind of leadership in recent years.

Ours is a great and powerful nation, committed to certain enduring ideals, and those ideals must be reflected in our foreign policy.

We should not behave abroad in ways that violate our own laws or moral standards.

People should control government, and not the other way around.

We must not lower our standards to accept high inflation, high unemployment, and huge deficits as a normal circumstance.