This Agreement, one of a series to be negotiated in accordance with that legislation, is significant because it is the first to be negotiated personally by representatives of the two governments since 1958.

Your membership and your leadership were part of a larger society and a larger world.

Favorable action by Congress on this Agreement will constitute a tangible step in the improvement of United States-Cuban relations.

We must also make government more efficient, because we don't have the money to waste on inefficiency.

We all know that you've already suffered.

Your union was born in struggle, and you've won many victories.

Too many people are already paying more payroll taxes than they do income taxes, and we are not going to go this route to save the social security system.

I strongly recommend that the Congress consider extending the provisions of the Fishery Conservation Zone Transition Act (P.L. 95-6) to this Agreement in order that it may be brought into force at the earliest possible date.

I'm very proud of the resilience and the strength and the courage and the independence and the insight and the careful planning that's been part of your lives ever since this area was settled.

We are not going to let social security go broke.

We want a tough negotiator.

Nothing good comes quickly or easily.

We must work together to control inflation and to get our economy moving again.

Inflation robs us of our confidence in the future.

These four people, different in their background, different in their future responsibilities, but having a common purpose to serve our country to the best of their own ability, is what brings us together this morning.

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 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.