Needless to say that 1989 was the first year of new leadership.

Thank you for all you've done to build and strengthen this party.

I would take this opportunity to call on Congress to pass our clean air legislation.

I call on the Congress to pass our anticrime package to make the streets safer.

Only this process, we emphasized, offered the possibility of success.

I'd like to call on Congress to act responsibly in favor of growth and opportunity.

The United States did not see continuation of the status quo as a solution to the Cyprus problem.

We are, and proudly remain, the party of Lincoln, the Republican Party.

I can't tell you how grateful I am to them and to our military for this superbly executed, highly complex operation.

Today there are only two dictatorships in Latin America.

I am confident that this will be a great year -- a Republican year.

U.S. interest in a negotiated settlement remained strong.