George H.W. Bush

We want to see everything implemented as best it can be, and that's our position, one of the principal positions we take with the United Nations.

I call upon all Americans to recognize those dedicated and hardworking individuals who contribute to the success of the School Lunch Program.

I urge all Americans to develop and practice a home fire escape plan.

Let us also recognize all those individuals who are working toward the same goal.

We strongly support Bob Dole's package, which is budgetarily sound, forward-looking, takes care of those that really need help.

The character of a people is embodied in its leaders.

I've been working on unemployment benefits this morning.

I do hereby proclaim the week beginning October 13, 1991, as National School Lunch Week.

I just hope that the Senate will do what's needed, and that is help these people, but also do something that is budgetarily sound.

And, of course, let us remember with grateful prayers those fire fighters who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

Fire prevention begins with recognizing and changing risky behaviors such as careless smoking.

What's good for Hispanic America will be good for the United States.

Family is absolutely essential to our success.

I think again of the explorers on our continent five centuries ago.

Section 4 would establish a $1,000 per-violation minimum civil penalty that is unwarranted.

The Government of Peru's agreement with the coca farmers opposing drug trafficking and in favor of alternative development represents an imaginative approach which we would like to support.

We must not think of these achievements as somehow antique and irrelevant.

America's more than 400,000 Hispanic-owned firms provide new jobs and generate new wealth.

Today we hear the creaking and crumbling of that Castro dictatorship.

I am pleased to nominate Lanny Griffith as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs.

The program has outlived its usefulness and should be allowed to expire at the conclusion of the current fiscal year.

Portland is a very special place.

America cannot afford to wait or to waste an entire generation.

I take great pleasure, as I know all Americans do, in their independence.

Bob Packwood was one of those who, against those public opinion polls of the moment, stood with me in that historic debate.