We ask you to work to get better value for health care dollars, targeting effective services, finding ways to contain the escalating costs of medical care without compromising the quality of health service.

The United States Government takes equally seriously its own commitments to arms control agreements.

She would succeed Jack R. Stokvis.

The United States has made clear its concerns about Soviet noncompliance.

We must draw from these same deep wells of national purpose to summon the spirit of defiance.

I think we will become a majority within the next few years.

Too many lives have been imperiled or lost to drugs, too much human potential is being ground up and wasted.

This Department gives shape and form to the promise America makes to its people.

The resilience of the State governments in the eighties vindicates, in my view, the wisdom of the Founding Fathers.

I expect he felt as strongly as many of the Senators, having served in the Senate.

The highest honor of all you won -- opportunity to serve.

Dick Cheney is the best and the proper choice.

I have read that we made mistakes.

True security cannot exist without guarantee of human rights and basic freedoms for all people.

Great beginnings -- crawling before we walk and then run.

I am also concerned by the way in which perceptions based on groundless rumor seemed to be the basis on which at least some made up their minds.

For America, it seems to me, means pride -- individually, culturally, racially.

The most pressing challenge is to manage the modernization of America's nuclear weapons production plants.

I have total confidence that Jim Watkins is the best man to meet the challenges ahead.

Today marks the beginning of a process of great importance for the people of Europe, the United States, and Canada.

We know that when a dream comes true it gives rise to even bigger and better dreams.

John Tower has devoted his life to service of country.

I respect its role in doing so, but I disagree with the outcome.

You have important work to do; you're on the cutting edge now; and this Department is here to stay and will have the full support of this President.

Education can give minorities a greater voice and then make sure that that voice is heard.