George H.W. Bush

Either fix our legal system, stop undermining our workers, or we're going to take a broom and do some spring cleaning in November.

I challenge you to breathe life into the meaning of Labor Day and into the meaning of Solidarity.

No one can outproduce, outthink, outcreate the American working man and woman, no one.

We're a nation on the rise.

Four more years is what we need to finish this job, 4 more. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

Heading down there? A lot of volunteers are pouring in. It's really good, and they're really helping. They're helping reconstruct. I talked to the guy yesterday, Andy Card, and a lot of that debris that was just there has been moved away…

Right from here? Is that right? Mr. Harris. Want to raise money to help the people in Florida this weekend. It's going to happen in the Mud Creek Association churches tomorrow. So we're all part of it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they…

Remember Hugo. And they were reaching out, helping people halfway across the country. It's just wonderful. Mr. Harris. There's, I think, 37 churches in the Mud Creek Association that want to do the same thing.

Then we went over to Jeanerette, Louisiana, and there was a whole group from around here, as a matter of fact, in North Carolina. They had just pitched in because people had been over helping on the North Carolina coast. Mrs. Bush. They…

Yes, we had a chance to talk a little on those issues, their education, some of those things. But we'll have a chance to visit.

I'll leave that to Barbara. [Laughter] No, we're not here on that. We're just here because they invited us here, and we're proud to be here and very pleased. Mr. Harris. It was an invitation for him to come and talk with my two daughters…

Coaches. She teaches. Mrs. Bush. Well, she started the Girl Scout troop. They're active in their church. Their children get good marks because their parents care. I mean, just by chance they turned out to be an extraordinary family, and…

A very hospitable one at that, and we are very grateful--[laughter]--for their hospitality, I'll tell you. It transcends any of these other things. They invited us, and here we are. They really made us feel at home. We've only been here 5…

That is what we mean when we talk about Points of Light.

We've got to do better in education.

Let them go to Poland.

May I just first say what a privilege and thrill it is for Barbara and me to be here.

America must not only be a military superpower, we've got to be an export superpower, and we've got to be an economic superpower.

Now, if you've never seen legislation signed, watch this one, because I'm now going to sign the Small Business Credit and Business Opportunity Enhancement Act of 1992, an example of what we can do to put small business first. [At this…

Let me tell you something. I was in a hardware store, and Mr. Janney said something to me. He said, ``You see my grandchildren here?'' He said, ``I am very happy that they're going to grow up, thanks to you and your administration, in a…

And he starts with a big idea. Here it is, you heard the proposal right from him: Mr. Clinton says that he wants $220 billion in new Government spending. Audience members. Boo-o-o!

I see small business as the backbone of the American economy, and he sees it as a golden-egg-laying goose that ought to pay more in taxes. Audience members. Boo-o-o!

The major question in this campaign is this: I believe that the Government is too big and spends too much and taxes too much.

Let Congress start by passing my small-business health care reforms.

I will never approve such a program.