George H.W. Bush

The excitement of all this, you just feel it in talking to the leaders and feel it from the people.

The Fund will support the development of the growing private sector in Hungary.

The creative drive of the people, once unleashed, will create momentum of its own.

I am very proud to be the first American President to visit Hungary.

We are creating dozens of fellowships to enable Hungarians to study at American universities.

Hungary is opening again to the West, becoming a beacon of light in European culture.

It is on this foundation of truth, more solid than stone, that Hungarians have begun to build a new future.

I will inform the Congress that Hungary is in full compliance with the Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act.

Hungary has taken a number of steps to enlarge its private sector which can produce wealth that will benefit the entire Nation.

Let us have history write of us that we were the generation that made Europe whole and free.

The Peace Corps entry into Hungary represents a new era for American volunteers serving overseas.

We expect to send a technical delegation to Hungary shortly to negotiate the final terms of the agreement and work out detailed arrangements for funding.

The United States will offer assistance not to prop up the status quo but to propel reform.

It means jobs, innovation, progress.

The center would facilitate loans of lab equipment and organize workshops and other exchanges.

The Iron Curtain has begun to part.

On the contrary, progress is the product of the people.

You can see a new and prosperous Poland not overnight, not in a year -- but, yes, a new and prosperous Poland in your lifetime.

I am here as President of the United States because we have in our country a special affection and feeling for the people of Hungary.

I want to thank everybody in the Embassy for the support of this visit.

I add my voice to those of so many around the world who are impressed with Poland's courage.

You heard carefully what he said.

I promised everybody at the Embassy, in my heart, that I would leave on time, and thus you could breathe one collective sigh of relief.

I salute the leaders of Hungary; I salute the reforms and change that is taking place in this wonderful country.

Each individual is an infinity of possibilities, and in the capacity of those individual talents lies the future of your nation.