I intend to be the President when a constant stream of American ships filled with American-built automobiles are unloading every week and every month in Tokyo and Yokohama.

I believe that what we've done in the economic area so far has minimized the damage caused by uncontrollable and unpredictable change in American buying habits.

We have established economic and environmental guidelines for planning water projects, to be consistently applied by all water resource program agencies.

The comprehensive steel agreement that we've reached is proof that the proper role of government is to be a partner in economic change, not an impediment.

We must do, though, is to realize that the election pressures cannot be permitted to shape economic policy.

Only problems as extreme as those then faced by the domestic shoe industry could justify the modest mandatory limits on imports.

The only feasible solution to that would be to lower the per capita income in the North and to increase it in other parts of the country.

Achieving satisfactory economic growth, reducing unemployment, and at the same time making steady progress in curbing inflation constitutes an enormous challenge to economic policy.

The control of inflation is the most important.

We took a long step in the battle against inflation this afternoon.

I have determined that provision of import relief is not in the national economic interest.

The imposition of import relief would not be an effective means to promote adjustment in the domestic industry.

I have consistently supported a more effective and aggressive Export-Import Bank.

We are also taking important international initiatives to improve U.S. export performance.

I intend very shortly to announce a further series of important and specific and tough measures to strengthen our fight against inflation.

I think the answer to that question is that the developing nations of the world are much more committed to an all-encompassing, new international economic order.

These tax measures, applied in conjunction with other anti-inflation policies, will support the objective of reducing and containing the rate of inflation.

I will not be satisfied until we have a job for every American who wants a job in the next 4 years.