Jimmy Carter

I am signing H.R. 7553, the public works appropriations bill.

I will urge Congress to reject proposals leading to an investment of over $2.2 billion of tax dollars in the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project.

This bill is a precedent-setting first step in trimming spending on unnecessary, expensive, and environmentally damaging construction projects.

This timetable will be enforced.

That they may adopt U.N. Resolution 242, which does recognize Israel's right to exist permanently and in peace with secure borders.

I welcome this positive step.

Those industries which delay installing abatement equipment will no longer be rewarded in the marketplace.

We are not going to meet with the Palestinian leaders as long as they are committed to the destruction of Israel.

I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 6161, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977.

The issues involved in amending the Clean Air Act have been difficult and the debate lengthy.

The biggest obstacle that we've detected, of course, is whether or not the Palestinians would participate in the discussions.

This program is intended to give them the opportunity for self-support by providing jobs for those who need them.

There's a great deal of stigma attached to the word 'welfare.'

Every time you simplify a system and remove the complexities you eliminate one chance of fraud.

This program will provide increased benefits and more sensitive treatment to those in need.

It's unfair to the poor and wasteful to taxpayers' dollars.

We must make a complete and clean break with the past.

Every family with a full-time worker will have an income substantially above the poverty line.

Those who can work will work.

The welfare system is worse than I had expected, and I stand by that conclusion.

This new program will accomplish the following: Dramatically reduce reliance on welfare payments.

This program will not be incompatible with that dream to balance the budget.

The welfare system is too hopeless to be cured by minor modifications; we must make a complete and clean break with the past.

The system is neither rational nor is it fair, and the welfare system is antiwork and antifamily.

It is time to begin.