The primary purpose of our foreign policy is to create and maintain a world environment within which our great experiment in freedom can survive and flourish.

We simply must have an international policy of democratic leadership, and we must stop trying to play a lonely game of power politics.

There must be bipartisan harmony and collaboration between the President and the Congress, and we must reestablish a spirit of common purpose among democratic nations.

We are deeply concerned, not only by such obvious tragedies as the war in Vietnam, but by the more subtle erosion in the focus and the morality of our foreign policy.

East-West relations will be both cooperative and competitive for a long time to come.

I would like to reduce drastically the number of categorical aid programs.

My first entry in the government life was as a member of a county school board.

I'm heavily committed to that, and I think my record as governor and as a state legislator would testify to that fact.

Those acts would never be weakened while I'm in the White House.

I think that my success in the primaries have been an indication that what I've just outlined to you is similar to what the American people want.

I believe that with the purpose expressed by the teaching profession... whatever obstacles are there can be substantially eliminated.