George H.W. Bush

We will measure success by the caliber of students our schools produce.

It is essential that we take responsible actions to assure that the economic recovery and its associated job-creation continue and strengthen.

I will interpret section 506 so as not to infringe on the Executive's authority to conduct studies that might assist in the evaluation and preparation of such measures.

I therefore direct the Secretary, as part of his obligation to implement section 304 'to the fullest extent possible,' to administer the section in a constitutional manner.

I have stated my intention to veto any bill that does not contain language that prohibits the use of all congressionally appropriated funds to pay for abortions other than those in which the life of the mother would be endangered if the…

I hereby waive the application of sections 402(a) and 402(b) of the Act with respect to Romania.

This Act provides funds for the water resources development activities of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation.

As a Nation, we must protect the unborn.

I have today signed into law H.R. 2427, the 'Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1992.'

I determine that a waiver by Executive order of the application of subsections (a) and (b) of section 402 of the Act with respect to Romania will substantially promote the objectives of section 402.

As a matter of law, the use of local funds in the District of Columbia must be approved by the Congress and the President through enactment of an appropriation act.

I am withholding my approval of H.R. 2699, a bill providing appropriations for fiscal year 1992 for the District of Columbia.

I will not designate the direct spending and the appropriations authorized in H.R. 3201 as an emergency.

I do hereby proclaim August 29, 1991, as National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day.

I reiterate my intention to proceed in this area as outlined in my letters to Senators Boren and Cohen of October 30, 1989.

I am pleased that the Congress has eliminated the most serious problems identified in my Memorandum of Disapproval of November 30, 1990, regarding its predecessor, S.2834 (101st Congress).

I believe that the Act's definition of 'covert action' is unnecessary.

I remain concerned about legislatively directed policy determinations in the Act and provisions that are without effect because they are unconstitutional under the Supreme Court decision in INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983).

Today I have signed H.R. 1455, the 'Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1991.'

I am confident that this Act will lay to rest disputes that in the past have arisen between some Members of Congress and the executive branch.

I hereby transmit the annual report on the National Security Strategy of the United States, 1991.

Let's hope that all of this comes together and our citizens will be released and the others as well.

Putting innocents at risk is not the way one makes a political statement.

I do think that there's an overall climate internationally now that permits... that would encourage hostage holders to set aside some of their alleged reasons for holding people or their grievances in order to permit them to release them.

I just hope that we soon wake up in this world and recognize that holding hostages is a counterproductive way to make a statement of policy or for any other reason.