09/21/1980
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"Every hostage and every person who loves those hostages, not just the families but 220 million American people, thank you for the superb work that you have done in ensuring, so far, the safety."
"I am not going to take any military action that would cause bloodshed or arouse the unstable captors of our hostages to attack them or to punish them."
"I agree fully with the letter and the spirit and the intent of the Kemeny commission's recommendations."
"I promised you in my own campaign more than 3 years ago, that if I was elected President that one of my goals would be to establish a separate Department of Education."