Well, gentlemen of the Stars & Stripes, for a few days you enabled us all to become airborne, and we thank you.
The simple fact is government had taken a stand against families.
Congratulations! You performed up to the highest standards in conditions that were arduous and exhausting.
We need to reevaluate our entire antipoverty strategy.
Our current welfare system is not only a failure but counterproductive.
Instead of citing at the end of each year how many people were being maintained on welfare, every year they would be say...
I do hereby proclaim to Dennis Conner and the crew of Stars and Stripes the heartfelt congratulations and appreciation o...
the only true measure of a welfare program's success is how many people it makes independent of welfare.
welfare reform is not just important but vital—vital to our economic well-being; vital, indeed, to our self-respect as a...
We can and must do better.
Together we must persuade Congress to provide you the tools necessary to create a better life for Americans in need.
The sad truth is that, despite our best intentions, the welfare system is failing; the system traps people in a cycle of...
Our goal instead must be to establish a process that allows states and communities to implement their own anti-poverty i...
I applaud those efforts, and want to begin a process to encourage many more of these state and community-based reform ef...
Those prayers, and millions like them, will always keep our country secure and make her a force for good.
This bicentennial year is a singularly appropriate time to reflect on its importance to each of us.
Our Founding Fathers knew that their hope was in prayer.
The principles it embodies are timeless: protection of the individual against the state.
