George H.W. Bush

Let me thank all of you at the Lab for your role in preserving the peace and keeping the world stable and America secure.

I think people are beginning to understand what I mean when I talk about a Thousand Points of Light.

Enactment of H.R. 3952 would allow implementation of Phase I of the President's Action Plan to Foster Economic Recovery in Panama.

The Secretary of the Treasury went down there and signed with President Salinas an agreement on Third World debt.

I'm confident that the Livermore Laboratories will be a crucial part of our ability to meet the challenges of the new decade and the new century.

I'm not here to anoint or try to shape the deliberations of the Central Committee proceedings in the Soviet Union this very day.

Today the cold war is in retreat.

Germany would remain as a member of NATO, but NATO may have a changing mission.

The strength of the U.S. nuclear deterrent... has helped to guard the peace and freedom so precious to all of us.

Yours are the minds that are rarely at rest -- sometimes blessed, sometimes burdened with a flow of ideas that simply won't quit.

A statutory requirement to reveal such negotiations would interfere with the President's constitutional responsibility for conducting negotiations with foreign governments.

San Francisco is back, and we can understand that.

The Livermore's technical prowess is well-known, truly remarkable.

Our foremost goal is to prevent another world war.

In the 1990's, strategic defense makes much more sense than ever before, in my view.

The purpose of containment was not to defeat or humiliate the Soviets.

I think it would be a very good thing to do because as a grandparent of 12 I must confess...

I pray that it will not be my sad duty to commit American fighting men again into combat.

We're inspired by this Revolution of 1989.

I would rather be called cautious than I would be called reckless.

San Francisco will be as beautiful and vital as ever.

It's why I'm imposing on great scientists like David Packard and others to give us the advice on how we can become more competitive.

We must remain in Europe as long as we are needed and wanted.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

As a free and democratic people, Americans will always welcome measures which promote the growth of democracy.