Responsibility

This Administration intends to carry out that responsibility fully and fairly.

It is no comfort to me that when I came into office I wrote 300 of those letters a week and that this week I will write 27. One is too many.

In America, law enforcement has been and must remain primarily the responsibility of State and local governments.

I have said nothing or done nothing to contribute to that cooling.

Our thoughts of what we could, what we should, and what we must do to meet these problems.

I hope that you will enter into these discussions knowing that you are a very select group in which great trust is placed and which bears great responsibility.

We count upon you as individuals.

I do not believe that you want it said of your generation that you committed social suicide.

The real key to solving the problem will finally lie in your hands.

The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows, above all, that his task is, in the language of the current generation, to 'cool it'.

The awesome responsibility which was his both in the office of Secretary of Defense and in his other official duties testifies to the respect and confidence of his associates.

The task of protecting the consumer cannot and should not be left solely to the Federal Government.

We have failed that person and, finally, we have failed our country.

The Red Cross has never failed us. We cannot fail it now.

I have stressed that we must reorganize and modernize the Government's organization structure in order to focus responsibilities, increase efficiency, and meet present-day needs more effectively.

There is too much at stake for us to consider for a moment that a position of responsibility is to be parceled out either as a plum of patronage or as a reward for partisanship.

We are not children playing with sticks and stones.

I believe, I genuinely and sincerely believe, that every American boy and girl born under this flag has an unqualified right to all the education that he or she can make good use of, and a responsibility to get it.