The efficiency with which a nation produces and distributes its agricultural products largely determines the vitality, health, well-being, and economic strength of that nation.

NAFTA is the gateway to all of Latin America, to 700 million people.

We are living in a country now where gunshots are the single leading cause of death among teenage boys.

Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

The free exercise of religion has been called the first freedom, that which originally sparked the development of the full range of the Bill of Rights.

I think there are really four larger implications of this APEC leaders' meeting as far as we're concerned.

It has to be an Asia-Pacific shared vision.

It is the placement of international economic policy at the front burner of American foreign policy.

We cannot get more jobs in this economy until we have more customers for our products and our services.

Every Member we get who's in a difficult district, who's voting for this is doing it because he or she believes that it's in the interest of their constituents even if they haven't quite persuaded them yet.

To recognize that we're a Pacific power is not to forget that we're an Atlantic power.

The Director shall provide oversight and direction for all international counternarcotics policy development and implementation, in coordination with other concerned Cabinet members, as appropriate.

We all have a shared desire here to protect perhaps the most precious of all American liberties, religious freedom.

We can't have a GATT agreement without Europe and Asia and the international community coming together on that objective.

NAFTA is a job creator.

I fully support the determination of the citizens of Puerto Rico to continue their commonwealth status.

The senior citizen community, our parents and grandparents, is one of our great resources.

The rejection of NAFTA would set back our relationship with Mexico, and Latin America beyond, for years to come.