George H.W. Bush

This move appears justified by the budget agreement and the general slowdown.

I believe the country would support that.

This is an all-volunteer army; they're not draft dodging.

I am not directing that sanctions be imposed on Norwegian fish products for the whaling activities that led to certification by the Secretary of Commerce.

I'm still hopeful there's a peaceful solution to this problem.

All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty for the last half of the scheduled workday on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1990.

Some tell me as recently as yesterday that he feels that Saddam Hussein simply does not understand the debate in this country.

We've got an opportunity for a new world order, but that opportunity will be lost if an aggressor gets one single concession.

I hope not. I certainly hope not.

We have to keep repeating it.

It is for this reason that we all welcome Security Council Resolution 678.

If that would help get the message to him that he has got to leave without condition, I certainly wouldn't oppose that.

Education is our most enduring legacy, vital to everything we are and can become.

We've got to prevail, and we will.

It's very clear to the world that that's what the objective is.

I will not be a party to circumventing or diluting the United Nations deadline.

I want a peaceful solution to this crisis.

I think the United Nations resolutions should be fully implemented.

One way or another we will.

Of course, service to others is and has been the mission of much of the nonprofit community.

Redouble our efforts to stem the spread of missile technology as well as nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

Most companies catch hell from the competition.

The needs of our nation are so great that the Points of Light Foundation seeks to make direct and consequential service aimed at serious social problems central to the life and work of every American.

And we join them all in praying for their safe return of their soldier or their airman or their marine or their sailor.

I've often said that from now on in America any definition of a successful life must include serving others.