And if not now, when?

All I have left to say is that there are going to be refreshments up there on the West Lawn.

I was going to take up tennis again until I found out you couldn't get the horse on the court.

the President believes that it is essential to the security of the nation to embark upon a major, long-term buildup in American defense forces.

I appreciate the spirit in which you have reached this agreement, and firmly believe that we have struck the balance necessary to assure both an increasingly strong defense and the economic health on which defense and well-being depend.

I am happy that we are able to be a part of this important humanitarian effort.

The true test of civilization, it's been said, is not the census or the size of cities or the crops, but the kind of people the country turns out.

The measure of their heroism is that only a few seconds after they had completed the rescue, the vehicle exploded.

It is through voluntary agencies like Catholic Relief Services that the American people can express their concern for those who suffer the indignities of hunger and poverty.

Today's shipment by Catholic Relief Services will provide food for thousands of children, the aged, and the infirm who have experienced severe shortages during the past months.

This is one of the things that we hope we are going to see revived in America, more voluntarism, more effort expended by people in a neighbor-to-neighbor way and less of the officialdom of government intervening in that field.

There's nothing wrong with our country when we've got young people doing things like that.