I believe it would be inequitable and unwise for the Federal government to address this issue on an industry-by-industry basis.

We don't have a deficit because we're taxed too little; we have a deficit because they're spending too much.

I'm proud to be an American, where at last I know I'm free.

We deeply appreciate those who have worked so long and hard, in the negotiations and in the Congress, to fashion and enact the commonwealth covenant and the compacts of free association.

That future that all of us want: a future of prosperity, of freedom for the individual, and above all, a future where America is safe and secure.

We are honored by the choices of the peoples and leaders of the two new freely associated States to associate with us in close and long-lasting relationships.

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

They never met a tax they didn't like.

It gives us heart, the heart it took to fight and to win this campaign.

I am gratified that the people of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, after nearly forty years of Trusteeship, have freely chosen to establish a relationship of Free Association with the United…

the relations of the United States with the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands shall, in all matters not the program responsibility of another Federal department or agency, be under the general administrative supervision of the…

Today I am pleased to announce the beginning of new relationships between the United States and the island groups that have emerged from the Pacific Islands Trust Territory.