Thanks to the dynamics of less government and more free markets, the damage has been repaired—and repaired much faster than anyone could have originally hoped.

The economy is moving along at a moderate rate of growth, and inflation is well under control.

I urge the congressional leadership to schedule prompt action on a bill immediately after my veto is sustained.

We've been able to resist attempts to block free and fair trade.

This bill did pass the Congress this week, but the good news is the vote showed we have the strength to sustain a Presidential veto.

These provisions serve the special interests and not the Nation's interests.

I'm going to be very severe with any trade legislation coming out of Congress that threatens America's prosperity.

I urge prompt passage of such legislation.

I want to reaffirm my concern that none of the funds appropriated for the District of Columbia...should be used for abortion unless the life of the mother would be physically endangered if the fetus were carried to term.

I urge the Congress to enact this needed reform in order to avoid the experience of the 1988 Continuing Resolution.

I do hereby proclaim Friday, April 29, 1988, as National Arbor Day.

We the People are in charge, and we need give our loyalty not to self-appointed rulers but to liberty.

As you once said, the First Lady is elected by a constituency of one, and there's no doubt that the best candidate won.

H.R. 5 is a solid achievement, one that deserves to be signed.

We have begun to turn back what our education commission 5 years ago called 'a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.'

It gives me the greatest pleasure to present Claudia Alta Johnson with this special gold medal.

The primary responsibility for educating these children lies with the local communities and the States, and not with the Federal Government.

Parents are, after all, our first and most important teachers.