And I realized how great our responsibility was, yours and mine, to see to it that this great Nation meets its responsib...
We have found that inevitably when such programs continue and escalate in any society, welfare tends to destroy those wh...
No President with the responsibility for the lives and security of the American people could fail to provide this protec...
The gravest responsibility which I bear as President of the United States is for the security of the Nation.
This is a very close decision on our part, one that I not only discussed with Secretary Laird yesterday, but that we wil...
I have not stepped up the war in Vietnam.
Debates in the field of national defense are often spirited, and the votes are often close.
In view of the current offensive on the part of the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong, there is no prospect for a reduct...
I think that since this is a new system, we should constantly examine what progress has been made in the development of ...
I do not plan a State of the Union Address in the traditional manner.
In other words, our program provides an incentive for a responsible Soviet weapons policy and for the avoidance of spira...
I have chosen the third option.
The program is not provocative.
I rejected these options for the following reasons:
As to whether or not a different response would either discourage those talks or might have the effect of even encouragi...
Although every instinct motivates me to provide the American people with complete protection against a major nuclear att...
Giving up all construction of missile defense poses too many risks.
It will be my policy as President to issue a warning only once, and I will not repeat it now.
