I expect over here you wonder if we over at the White House even know you exist at times.

Each of you shares in this great triumph of the human spirit.

What's worse is that drugs rob you of your future and our future.

Let me just close now with the business at hand, a personal note about my dear friend and your new Director.

The cold war was itself, in the deepest sense, a war of ideas.

Drug-free schools are a top priority of our America 2000 strategy and of our national drug control strategy.

Federal resources and authorities, however, should play an important role in helping the States to achieve the national education goals.

That is America's message.

The strategy is a national -- not a Federal -- strategy.

I feel very emotionally about the war and about having to send other people's sons and daughters halfway across the world.

A long-term authorization should not be enacted until the District Government has a long-range plan to restructure local revenues and spending to solve its own fiscal crisis.