I believe that it would take approximately a year before a final and comprehensive proposal can be made to the Congress.

I have been victorious in some hard-fought campaigns.

I am strongly opposed to the proliferation of new agencies, departments, bureaus, boards and commissions because it adds on to an already confused federal bureaucratic structure.

I think that the government should do everything possible to minimize abortions.

Our public opinion polls have shown since the convention that I have strong support from all religious groups.

My life has been shaped in the church.

Because of my success in the primaries, people began to study the beliefs of Southern Baptists.

I think abortion is wrong and I think that government ought not ever do anything to encourage abortion.

I believe that the so-called prejudice against me because I am a southerner and because I'm a Baptist was overestimated to begin with.

I would like to stop that if I am elected President.

I think that if I try to ascribe that completely to religious convictions, that would probably be inappropriate.

I would do everything I could through moral persuasion and through my own actions as President to minimize a need for abortion.

I believe we must undertake a comprehensive long-range assessment of our mineral reserves and the demand for them.

We must not close the door on any long-range energy sources, including nuclear power.

One of the greatest failures of national leadership is the failure to convince the American people of the urgency of our energy problems.

I see clearly the value of a strong system of free enterprise.

We depend on and must call upon the best talent we can find in the business world, labor, the professions, and most certainly, in the universities and the scientific and engineering community.

I believe that the federal research and development emphasis should be on innovative uses of telecommunications and information services.