This legislation would give Executive Branch managers needed flexibility to adopt more efficient and equitable industry pay practices.

Compassion is a fundamental aspect of effective leadership and governance.

This is a significant decision, which holds open the promise that tangible progress can finally be made towards a just and lasting Cyprus settlement.

I am enclosing a copy of this Communiqué for your information.

I call on all Americans to join on this occasion in honoring those who made the special sacrifice of being captive in war, and their loved ones.

I assure you that we will continue as in past months to work closely with the United Nations, the Cypriot parties and our allies to help ensure the success of these talks.

Social progress—equality, liberty, freedom, justice—that kind of progress comes rarely from government as the initiator.

A. Philip Randolph contributed to the making of a new nation—not a perfect nation.

He stood up strongly, face to face, with four great Presidents.

His struggle was not easy, but the victories he won were permanent.

I remember Andy Jacobs was one of the first ones who ever recognized that I might be a future President.

It is good to be back home in Indiana-and not just because of the kind of weeks I've had recently in Washington.