I want to express my gratitude to the Members of the United States Senate for their approval of the sale of the AWACS defense system to Saudi Arabia.

Well, I would think that the only thing that could happen to make us not fulfill that would be if by some chance, the radical elements that we know are there...

We have guaranteed the security of the technology and the security of Israel.

I don't think they're being realistic about the dangerous situation in the Middle East.

I return home reminded again of the importance of American leadership in the world.

Cancun was a substantial success.

I will repeat my cautious, but optimistic, statement.

We had a very open discussion, identifying the point at which possibly aid isn't being as effective as it might be.

No, but you have to remember that there's no one at that table that has done more in the line of foreign aid than has the United States.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

Our strategy remains, as it has been, one of flexible response: maintaining an assured military capability to deter the use of force—conventional or nuclear—by the Warsaw pact at the lowest possible level.

The essence of U.S. nuclear strategy is that no aggressor should believe that the use of nuclear weapons in Europe could reasonably be limited to Europe.