Our mission of mercy will continue.
I will never forget, if I might digress a moment, over the 25 years that I had the privilege of serving in the House of Representatives.
Your region is a great source of America's pride.
This task can be met only by reducing vulnerability to weaknesses in our economy and energy capacities.
This tragedy must not deter us from offering new hope for the living.
The magic of San Francisco and the Bay Area was not conjured up in the bureaus and agencies of the Federal Government.
Let no adversary or potential enemies of the United States imagine that America can be safely challenged.
First, we are taking all the humanitarian measures we can to relieve the innocent civilian refugees.
What is essential now is that we keep our nerve and our essential unity as a powerful but peace-loving Nation.
The facts are, we can afford no more delays.
I believe that the program of the previous four or five Presidents was aimed in the right direction.