America cannot continue to lead the world if we lag in providing opportunity at home.

We believe in federalism, and yet we are a people, one nation, indivisible.

The potential for consensus is there.

I have committed the powers of my office to lift America, starting in the classrooms and the streets.

In fact, our missions as executives are so similar that many Presidents have called on you for guidance.

To have reform, excellence and achievement must be recognized and rewarded; to have reform, Federal dollars should be targeted to those most in need; to have reform, we need flexibility and choice.

The American people want clean air, and we can work together to see that they get clean air.

I know I speak for all here when I try to express to the American people the sense of outrage that we all feel about this kind of brutality, this uncalled-for terrorism.

Your creative response to our nation's competitive position is more than perceptive; it's forward looking, an attribute to the best kind of leadership.

Working together, we can make the next century an American century.

Your organization provides us all with a stirring example of how citizens working together can help craft sound policy.

And yet we will not forget, and we will never break ranks.