Political Quotes

This legislation exceeds my budgetary recommendations by such a large amount--some $540 million--that it presents a clear and distinct threat to our fight against inflation and cannot be accepted.

In my economic address on May 25 of this year, I called for the establishment of a Cost of Living Task Force to monitor wages and prices.

It is regrettable that the Congress has seen fit to add to a bill of such importance to our national security a rider adversely affecting the constitutional separation of powers.

I commend this report to the attention of the Congress.