The answer to recovery has to be—or to unemployment, I should say, is recovery.

Let's get it done, and let's get the forces withdrawn so that we can proceed with the other steps.

That's not going to help the unemployed today.

I think our record—and incidentally, just yesterday I signed a paper with a group of minority small business people that is going to increase the amount of procurement that the Federal Government buys from minority-owned businesses.

I think that he will be cooperative.

No one is trying to take their benefits away from them or cut them back.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

I am asking the Vice President's Task Force on Regulatory Reform to explore opportunities for reducing regulatory and other barriers to small and minority business expansion.

This program is designed to stimulate growth through trade and tax provisions that will encourage investment, reward hard work, and create jobs.

By helping the people of the Caribbean, we will help ourselves.

Positive action now on this bipartisan initiative will bring new opportunity to our hemisphere, reinforce stability among the democracies of the New World, and demonstrate for all that prosperity, peace, freedom, and democracy go hand in…

Today, in signing this statement, we reaffirm our commitment to a healthy economy in general and to a vibrant and expanding minority business opportunity in particular.

This is a positive, self-help, free enterprise method through which we and our neighbors can assist each other.

I hereby declare December 11, 1982, as 'Fiorello H. La Guardia Memorial Day'.

Well, just as the incredible productivity and efficiency of American business catapulted the standard of living of our people as a whole, we believe a thriving minority business community will be instrumental in bettering the lives of…

Clearly, a general prosperity with growth, with low inflation, is the greatest single thing that this administration or any administration can provide for minority business and minority Americans.

I applaud the Members of the House of Representatives for their overwhelming vote today in support of the Caribbean Basin Initiative.

Greater economic independence for minority Americans will best be achieved through increased opportunities for private employment and business ownership.