I am confident that Martin Gerry will be an outstanding Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Take your place in this house of freedom.

Everyone who uses drugs, everyone who sells drugs, and everyone who looks the other way are responsible.

I'm pleased to have been greeted by him outside.

History may make men, but Lech Walesa has made history.

The Council will assist the President and the Director of National Drug Control Policy, William Bennett, in the development and promotion of our national drug policy.

I have asked 27 very prominent Americans to serve on this Council.

The scourge of illegal drugs upon the lives of many Americans is simply devastating.

And with the passage of time, they have won the battle for the hearts of their countrymen -- and in my view, it's about time.

The quest for freedom is stronger than steel, more permanent than concrete.

Texas was in trouble, and Texas needed a leader, and Texas needed you.

In 1990, the SFF will be used to help finance additional Federal prison construction, as proposed in the President's Drug Control Strategy.

We will implement competitive bidding as quickly and effectively as possible so that thousands of poor, nutritionally deficient women, infants, and children may receive the help they need.

This initiative will empower low-income families to become homeowners and have a stake in their communities.

We must combine housing assistance with necessary supportive services for the long-term homeless.

Title V should be deleted in its entirety.

Today, I am proud to announce the HOPE initiative to help more families own their homes.

Thank you, Bill, for your service to our great State.

Such an authorization is premature pending the completion of the required feasibility study.

We must not and cannot base our foreign policy or our national security aspirations on one man inside the Soviet Union or anywhere else.

H.R. 24 will expand WIC participation even more.

Texas is a mythic place, a land of heroes.

With the HOPE initiative, we aim to renew and strengthen low-income housing tax credits.

I don't know whether the development of today speeds up the day or not.

As a first step, I encourage the Congress to move quickly to adopt the specific FHA reforms that the Administration has just submitted to the Congress.