07/12/1988
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"Our Nation's global competitiveness in the 21st century will depend on maintaining our comparative advantage in science and technology."
"Our Nation's scientific and technological excellence is a great national asset that underpins our Nation's future economic prosperity and security."
"You're the 23d class of Presidential Scholars and the 5th of those I've had the opportunity to meet and congratulate."
"The wall there divides a city, as you know, and imprisons a population."