10/17/1984
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"I recommend that the Senate give early consideration to Optional Annex V of MARPOL 73/78 and give its advice and consent to ratification."
"welfare reform is not just important but vital—vital to our economic well-being; vital, indeed, to our self-respect as a nation."
"the only true measure of a welfare program's success is how many people it makes independent of welfare."
"Our goal instead must be to establish a process that allows states and communities to implement their own anti-poverty ideas based on their own unique circumstances."