Our patent system should always work to foster that spirit.

It would preserve and extend some of the best and most important aspects of our current patent system.

I have great hope that we can realize the full potential of American technology for serving our national purposes.

Our issues are new. Our alignments are new. Our styles are new. Our slogans are new.

The transistor radio, the microwave communication links, television, and atomic energy are based on knowledge which had not even been discovered when you were children.

The new ultraminiature devices which guide our spaceships and are giving us new medical tools are all the products of the last 10 years.

Some said then that the association was ahead of its time.

I am convinced that the ZIP Code has done more than any other recent innovation to move our postal service out of the age of the horse and buggy.

We have been thinking small, instead of thinking big, about the use of our human resources.

Before long, you will be able to span this continent--or the Atlantic Ocean--in 2 hours or less.

Our dizzying ability to discard the old and to create the new...all these and more are the challenges that surround you.

He is an innovator, administrator, and a genuine doer.

The commercial satellite service will advance to provide this new and unique telecommunications capability to other areas of the world.

Our scientists and engineers will find solutions to meet these problems as they develop, if we maintain a continuing and effective research program.

This is one of the most constructive, and one of the most sensible, and also one of the most exciting programs that this Nation has ever undertaken.

But I do say that your resources, your people, your management, your faith, your vision, your 20th century methods, your modern ideas, your great electronic industry and other industries that are coming to Arizona—that you will be growing twice as fast as the rest of the Nation in the year 2000.

For myself, I regard it as the mandate of all our experience that we insure the flourishing of science and technology in America -- as nowhere else on earth.

And when that happens, we want the United States to be in the lead, as it has been in the lead in jet transportation since the jet was invented.