I urge the Congress to focus in the appropriations process on the existing, successful programs that this bill reauthorizes.

Loyalty Day says much about the meaning of our country.

We Americans have both pledged and practiced loyalty from the moment the first patriots conceived the idea of a new and independent Nation where only freedom would reign.

The allegiance we Americans owe, and give gladly, on Loyalty Day and throughout our lives, is to a land and an ideal that beckon human hearts today just as always.

Engraved on the mantlepiece of this room, there is a quotation, I believe, from the first occupant of this house.

We can disagree without being disagreeable.

Our peoples are North Americans; we are the products of the same hope, faith, and dreams.

The goal of the program shall be to improve the quality and timeliness of service to the public and to achieve an annual average productivity increase of 3 percent in appropriate functions.

Canada's role is critical for the security of the Atlantic community.

There is hereby established a government-wide program to improve the quality, timeliness, and efficiency of services provided by the Federal Government.

We shall avoid the perils of protectionism and gain the advantages of each country producing what each is best able to bring to market.

Well, if he had a complete change of character.

History is usually generous to those who show leadership, who brought prosperity, who strengthened freedom, and who kept the global peace.

When Ronald Reagan came to this house as President, he was accused of saber rattling.

Yes, this will be a subject we'll be discussing.

Ronald Reagan has done these things, while never losing his engaging manner and his warm, good humor.

Every American child deserves the kind of school that Brenda Lee runs.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.