George H.W. Bush

I wish I could give you a much clearer answer, that there is some plan that is going to solve this problem in the way it must be solved.

I want what's known as the differential.

I want to get support across the board in the Congress for our defense program.

The ideals for which your loved ones fought may finally be coming to pass, the failure of totalitarian and repressive Communist regimes.

But as tragic as the loss of a loved one is, even more difficult to endure is the uncertainty which, for you, has extended over so many years.

The fullest possible accounting remains a matter of highest national priority.

Today, we see the symbol of this commitment, the League's POW/MIA flag, on permanent display in the rotunda of our nation's Capitol.

Truth is preferable to the greater agony, that of not knowing.

And when we receive final answers about their fate, then this will truly be a time for healing.

Your organization provides us all with a stirring example of how citizens working together can help craft sound policy.

And yet we will not forget, and we will never break ranks.

I call on Hanoi to swiftly dispel the shadow of doubt, to shed light on the fate of your loved ones.

We will never forget those who served our country.

Ours is a global economy now, and America must be able to compete.

I want to salute my two able assistants and friends up here on the platform.

The expansion and duplication of these authorities would not add to the coherence or effectiveness of Federal aid to small, rural communities.

America can, not Washington must.

It is clear that much of S. 1036 is duplicative, counter-productive, or otherwise raises substantive concerns.

I think this is a very good move.

What we are matters more than what we have.

Site-specific lease-purchase authorities are inefficient and costly, and are contrary to the orderly, financing of the Government's space needs that Congress has specifically authorized GSA to administer.

The establishment of a Rural Business Investment Fund would essentially duplicate the existing Farmers Home Administration Intermediary Relending Program.

Working with your minds, your hands, as farmers and as Americans.

A man in the country does his own thinking, but you get him into town and he soon will be thinking secondhanded.

You have been a Point of Light, and today you're still shining.