It is a time to reaffirm hopes and goals and a time to cast away the troubles of the old year.

My Administration will continue to work strenuously and constructively to defend United States interests in the United Nations setting and to make the Organization itself increasingly more responsive to global problems and needs.

Those born in the Year of the Boar are lucky in all ways and their lives are marked by success.

I came to Washington with a deep personal commitment to change America's economic future.

It is essential in the year ahead that the Administration and the Congress work together, take a long-term perspective, and pursue economic policies that lead to sustained economic growth and to greater prosperity for all Americans.

Government spending absorbed an increasing share of national income.

Understanding black history is fundamental to a thorough comprehension of the full scope and sweep of the American historical experience.

I think you always—sit down and see where you can come together on something that will be beneficial to the people.

The U.S. autoworkers are still the greatest autoworkers in the world, bar none.

No; frankly, I was simply responding to their vast propaganda effort that would try to discount our legitimate proposal for arms reduction.

If you can find a better program than that, you buy it.