It is important that the private sector assume a more active role in solving community problems.

Well, Your Majesty, after spending time with you today and discussing serious matters of concern to both our nations, I can fully appreciate why our cousins in Great Britain paid you that compliment.

President today announced his intention to nominate Chapman Beecher Cox to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Good and decent people must not close their eyes to evil, must not ignore the suffering of the innocent, and must never remain silent and inactive in times of moral crisis.

America is lucky to have you.

Tonight, let us pledge that we will never shut our eyes, never refuse to acknowledge the truth, no matter how unpleasant.

Those changes are unacceptable to King Hussein; they are unacceptable to King Fahd; they are unacceptable to me.

Nothing could be more unfair. And I promise you this: I will veto any attempt to take away the third year of your tax cut or the indexing which benefit low and medium-income families the most.

It's taken us 2 years to reverse that damage, get productivity growing again, and foster a recovery that's starting to bring people back to work.

This will be a protection we never had before.

We're confident that the economic measures President Hurtado is taking in Ecuador will succeed.

As two countries strongly committed to democratic government, we are heartened by the obviously favorable trend toward democracy in Latin America.