We just cannot let it sit here and end here.

My role is simply now, at the end of what I think we all agree was a very successful conference, to again thank the University of Virginia students, its faculty, its president; to thank all of the Governors.

I am pleased by the bipartisan House vote which represents a step forward for economic growth, new jobs, and American competitiveness.

How many great ideas, how many grand and noble experiments have been impaled on the narrow spike of a Federal directive?

It has never happened in over 200 years.

Only with the commitment of all of these people and with their cooperation and help can we be successful in attaining the goals that we hope to agree upon.

We will work closely with President Barco to expand bilateral trade and investment opportunities.

This has been historic, and I promise you that I won't, that my Cabinet won't, and that our entire administration will not.

We are here to work, and work together, to once again make an American education the best in the world.

Not only are we going to set national performance goals, which are ambitious, not only are we going to develop strategies to achieve them, but we stand here before you and tell you we expect to be held personally accountable for the…

I look forward to working cooperatively with the Senate to give swift attention to this tax cut.

A better educated citizenry is the key to the continued growth and prosperity of the United States.

I do not counsel a naive nostalgia, some tame adherence to the past.

A lower capital gains rate will reduce the cost of capital and create incentives for investment in the long-term productive capacity of American industry.

The time for rhetoric is past; the time for performance is now.

Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, do proclaim that:

We are here to put progress before partisanship, the future before the moment, and our children before ourselves.

This is what we need to make us more successful in the increasingly competitive international marketplace, creating more jobs and better living standards for Americans.

The United States is prepared to resume discussions with Colombia and others in order to resolve the fundamental problems of the current International Coffee Agreement.

H.R. 1662 conflicts with the Convention's approach to combatting torture and is premature given that Senate ratification of the Convention is pending.

Education is our most enduring legacy, vital to everything that we are and can become.

Let us be an America of tougher standards, of higher goals, and a land of bigger dreams.

I remain solidly committed to these principles, and I value your advice and ideas as we continue to refine the Federal role.

Business as usual is not getting us where we need to go.

Let no child in America be forgotten or forsaken.