"I haven't talked directly to General Powell today, but he thinks they've gone pretty well."
"Keep in mind that we've got more than they've had in a long time, and we need to go forward with this program."
"We have now cut from 2 months down to 1 week the amount of time it takes to process people who want to be considered to be refugees in Haiti."
"The great challenge of your generation is to prove that every person here in this great land can live up to the fullest of their God-given capacity."
"If that is so, if that is true, my fellow Americans, and if you believe it, it must therefore follow that each of us has an obligation to serve."
"Developing the capacity of the American people to be all they can be is perhaps the most important job that I have as President."
"I would discourage the American people from overreacting to this."
"We want to give people some credit for community service they do while they're in college."
"This morning I got a report on that, and it's my understanding that we are going through the regular agencies and that the request will be processed promptly."
"The lesson of our whole history is that honoring service and rewarding responsibility is the best investment America can make."
"I think we ought to do that."
"National service will be America at its best, building community, offering opportunity, and rewarding responsibility."
"I believe they are dead wrong."
"National service is nothing less than the American way to change America."
"I think Mrs. Nunamaker is right; we are on the right track."
"This is good news for everyone but especially for the young adults and middle class families who thought they would never be able to afford their own homes."
"I said it would be a challenge and that our plan would require every one of us to contribute and that the price of doing nothing is far, far higher for all of us than the price of change."
"Americans should know we'll do everything in our power to keep them safe in their streets, their offices, and their homes."
