It represents an elevation of this issue within our own government.

Let us wish for a new Pacific community, built on shared effort, shared benefit, and a shared destiny.

I believe that the changes I advocate will benefit both of us, or I would not be here pushing them.

Our relationship with Japan is the centerpiece of our policy toward the Pacific community.

Perhaps someday an American President will come here and give a speech to you in your native language.

A free press roots out corruption, even though it sometimes aggravates political leaders.

We hope we can promote growth in our economies and jobs for our people.

Democracies make better neighbors.

We must resist them because the only way wealthy countries can grow richer is if there is global economic growth.

This agreement means new jobs and new growth in the United States and in other nations.

It means more jobs and higher incomes for our people.

I am more determined than ever to press ahead with the Uruguay round by the end of this year.

I think that he will be in a position this week to report both to the G-7 but also to President Yeltsin that, in fact, he has done that.

There is no more important relationship to the United States than our relationship with Japan.

I want to say how glad we are to be in Japan.

I hope we will have more trade, not less, more openness, more growth, and more jobs in both Japan and the United States.

I come here with an outstretched hand and the hope that all of the ferment and change and political debate going on in Japan will be a very positive thing for your people and for our relationship.

We think it is in the interest of both countries for that to happen.