I think I will be guided by an old Chinese proverb: 'When you enter a country, inquire as to what is forbidden; when you cross a boundary, ask about the customs.'

Our country is moving forward.

A full-scale nuclear exchange between the East and the West would kill almost 300 million people around the world.

Well, I have made careful inquiries and I will eat the salmon and praise the B.C. Lions.

We are at once neighbors and friends, and partners and allies, and I am very glad my first stop is Vancouver.

I do not want us to fight a war that no one ever meant to begin.

We have never rattled our rockets or come carelessly to the edge of war.

I will say, though, when I go home, that Texas reminds me of Vancouver.

Total war makes no sense ....

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

We will always stand with you in the defense of freedom.

But we greet you not only as a great Canadian today.

This Texan hopes that you still feel that freedom, for we welcome the comments and the counsel which spring, as yours do, from friendship and understanding.

Those of us who seek peace know that only wisdom and patience, and the fortitude of long effort, can bring us near to that goal.

We must learn to live with each other or we will destroy each other.

We both have problems we must solve within our borders.

But I also tell you that in the years to come my country will spare no effort to achieve a lasting peace for all of us.

It is appropriate that this first trip should be to Canada.