I have the highest respect for you, and I have the deepest appreciation for what you've meant to our Government.

I consider it a great honor to be able to come and meet with you for a few minutes.

We were concerned, too, about the unfairness many of us sensed in the country's health care and welfare systems.

I want to make sure that whatever I do as President of our country in changing the structure or the priorities in our Government, it makes your lives and your professions more meaningful.

I doubt that anyone has ever conducted the kind of campaign for President that I've experienced in the last 2 or more years.

I believe we have the hope among the American people that we succeed.

I think this is an agency which is one of the newest, but which also has the greatest potential to let people in our Nation know that the Government really cares about them.

I think the country is ready for some substantial changes.

I want to make sure that the regulations that come out of the Federal Government... are necessary, brief as possible, and worded in plain and simple English.

I see this as a very great need.

I'm committed to accomplishing this before I go out of office.

I intend to nominate Evan S. Dobelle to have the rank of Ambassador while serving as Chief of Protocol for the White House.

I think that all of the country has learned a great lesson from Watergate.

I think nationalization of the oil and natural gas business would not be advisable.

I reserve the constitutional right to veto legislation that I think is contrary to the best interests of our country.

I believe that we won't have any danger of a recurrence of Watergate.

I will make a decision within the next week.

My commitment to human rights is clear.

I will try to make sure that all the natural gas companies and others that produce don't derive unwarranted profits.

I want to spend a maximum amount of time each press conference to answer your questions.

I think we come out better in dealing with the Soviet Union if I am consistently and completely dedicated to the enhancement of human rights.

I will nominate Adm. Stansfield Turner as Director of Central Intelligence.

The Office of Drug Abuse Policy was created by Public Law 94-237 of March 19, 1976.

I hereby appoint the following-named persons to the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments as indicated:

There is hereby established the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments.