George H.W. Bush

The temptation to support a bill -- any bill -- simply because its title includes the words 'civil rights' is very strong.

I am signing this bill with the understanding that these lands consist of, and are limited to, approximately 10,650 acres of the Mineral Strip.

Conservative estimates suggest that full implementation of H.R. 5237 could cost as much as $20 million.

The broad categories of 'sacred objects' and 'objects of cultural patrimony' should be deleted from the operation of this bill.

We will work in the Senate to address the following issues:— If remains and funerary objects are not linked to or claimed by a contemporary tribe, the Federal government should maintain stewardship responsibilities over the remains.

Additional studies should be allowed where necessary to ensure a correct determination of affinity.

We cannot shrink from our national commitment to equal protection under the law and equal opportunity for all.

Unaltered, S. 2104 would violate that pledge.

This requirement would circumvent the 'full funding' agreement between the Executive and Legislative branches to score these purchases to avoid misrepresenting total project costs.

This would restrict NOAA's flexibility to adjust prices to reflect actual costs, as provided by existing law.

The Congressional oversight process makes this limitation unnecessary and burdensome.

This office would duplicate existing Federal, State, and private sector programs.

This is unnecessary because NOAA is presently conducting a study and intends to provide its findings and recommendations to Congress early next year.

The relationship between Italy and the United States probably has never been better.

One big country can't bully its neighbor and take it over.

I feel optimistic that we can get this job done for the American people, and it needs to be done.

I also encourage every American to wear a red ribbon during this week as an expression of his or her commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

I have stood against raising these individual income tax rates, and I think I'm on the right track in that.

I encourage the people of the United States, as well as government officials, to observe this week with appropriate programs and activities designed to enhance public awareness of the risks of excessive radon exposure and ways we can…

If you want to make something happen, if you want to govern rather than just give speeches, you have to sit and work very hard and give a little and take a little.

Like Hungarians, the Americans of that time believed in helping individuals and nations who understood that real freedom makes all progress possible.

When we were in Budapest last year, I was given a piece of the Iron Curtain.

We believe that President de Klerk deserves credit for his political courage and leadership.

I'm going to fight the taxers and the spenders because it is right.

Little things do add up to the greatness of this whole system of our democracy.