
The source of the President's authority is the people.
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The source of the President's authority is the people.

A President who refuses to go out among the people, who refuses to be judged by the people, who is unwilling to lay his case before the people, can never be President of all the people.

The authority vested in the President by Section 57 of the Alaska Omnibus Act (added by the 1964 Amendments to the Alaska Omnibus Act, P.L. 88-451, 78 Stat. 507), (1) to make the grants to the State of Alaska provided for in that section…

The authority vested in the President by Section 6 of the Act of August 20, 1964, P.L. 88-459, 78 Stat. 558, to issue regulations governing the provision, occupancy, and availability of quarters and facilities, the determination of rates…

The authority vested in the President by the first section of the Act of August 31, 1964, P.L. 88-538, 78 Stat. 745, to prescribe regulations establishing the rates at which the allowance provided for in that section will be paid (to…

If we expect a Nation to be ignorant and free, we expect what never was and what never will be.

We pick them young, we pick them honest, we send them there, and then we keep them there

Peace is the most important subject to every man, woman, and child in this hall.

This crime business is just not an autumn fever.

We have a Bill of Rights; we are also developing a Bill of Responsibilities, and that will be the guidepost of my administration.

Our opponent has said: 'The child has no right to an education. In most cases, the children will get along very well without it.'

This year, for the first year in many years, I reduced the Federal budget $1 billion under last year

They quit laughing when other departments managed to save more than $400 million this year, and the year is not over yet.

We passed the biggest tax cut, a $12 billion tax cut, in the history of the Nation.