To help us revitalize American industry, business, labor, and the government must form a new and a vital partnership.

This is a time of economic testing for our Nation.

Increasing productivity is the foremost economic challenge of the 1980's.

I'm very delighted to have the Speaker here and distinguished Members of the House and Senate.

America needs to build muscle, not fat.

These kinds of advances in technology and in science can well exceed anything that we have seen in this century so far.

Change is inevitable if we are to grow.

This is no time for an excessive stimulus program.

The Committee was established by the President in 1978 after an interagency policy review of Federal programs affecting veterans of the Vietnam war era.

We are reducing the anticompetitive regulation of the airlines, trucking, rail, banking, and the communications industries.

It is charged with improving coordination among Government programs affecting veterans and targeting benefits and services to disadvantaged veterans, particularly those of the Vietnam era.

We must now build on the progress that we've made already in many vital areas.