05/29/1980
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"I will continue that policy this year."
"We do not own the Panama Canal Zone. We have never had sovereignty over it."
"Hope is the most powerful force in the world. It can inspire us to achieve great things."
"This new partnership can become a source of national pride and self-respect in much the same way that building the canal was 75 years ago."