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I want to be a little better, a little cleaner, a little more honest, a little harder working, a little closer to you, than I would under ordinary circumstances.

I would try to shift the nation away from oil to increased use of coal.

I would have a tough management attitude with the government itself.

I would like to give them job training and literacy instruction and get them job offers.

I would open up the deliberations of government as much as possible.

First, there would be a drastic simplification of the tax code.

Trust of people in government is the No. 1 issue.

I think the rate of increase would be carefully controlled, well-considered, and subject to a long-range plan.

Architectural barriers amount to fundamental discrimination.

We all pray for the day when people in need of residential care will be able to reenter the productive mainstream.

We must attempt to enable all of our people to reach their full human potential.

We will care, in dignity and respect and compassion, for those who cannot care for themselves.

I will implement the Education for All Handicapped Children Act as swiftly as possible, to insure that all the children in this nation can receive a high quality public education.

It is the government's responsibility to do the very best it can to minimize the burden of those costs.

Full rehabilitation—leading to economic, social and vocational independence—is our common goal.

Neither of these is an appropriate or decent attitude.

Vocational rehabilitation is a dead end if it does not lead to a job.

We should get away permanently from an attitude of paternalism or punishment or retribution when some of the South Americans didn't yield to our persuasion.