04/14/1997
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"I am proud of you all."
"This Commission will be asked to grapple with real issues of entitlement reforms, not caps or gimmicks that defer hard choices but specific and constructive proposals."
"History is on the side of freedom throughout the world and I remain confident that your cause will prevail."
"If I have learned one thing since I have been President, it is in the end we have to decide on specific matters and that rhetoric sooner or later always has to give way to reality."