Mr. Franke is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The objectives of the Combined Federal Campaign are to lessen the burdens of government and of local communities in meeting needs of human health and welfare.

Agreements must be based on the principle of equality of rights and limits.

We do not seek agreements for their own sake; we seek them to build international security and stability.

A half a loaf is better than none.

We still have a long way to go, but we've turned the corner and are moving forward.

We must seek agreements that involve substantial and militarily significant reductions on both sides.

Defense spending is not the cause of our economic problems.

Arms control agreements must include effective means of verification.

The safety net is intact and is providing for those people that have real need.

Well, I think it would have an effect either way.

I've always believed in the marketplace, and this confirmed it, because the price of oil has gone down.

Arms control must be an instrument of, and not a substitute for, a coherent security policy aimed in the first instance at the Soviet advantage in the most destabilizing class of weapons—ballistic missiles and, especially, intercontinental…

I think our stubbornness—if you want to call it that—will quite literally pay off for every American in the years ahead.

Housing starts are up, permits are up, new home sales are up 75 percent since April of last year.

We're doing more of this.

I think the fact that it had come down to that and left that other lower average is something that we can focus on as offering a little hope here.

I never made that remark to an audience that I did not get—in many cases, a standing ovation.