We believe that the people are going to win.

I commend the report to the thoughtful scrutiny of the Congress.

I thank you also for this very splendid scroll expressing your support for the Appalachia program.

In the event of inability the President would--if possible--so inform the Vice President, and the Vice President would serve as Acting President, exercising the powers and duties of the Office until the inability had ended.

In the event of an inability which would prevent the President from so communicating with the Vice President, the Vice President, after such consultation as seems to him appropriate under the circumstances, would decide upon the devolution…

It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation.

The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood.

The dedication of America to our traditions as an asylum for the oppressed is going to be upheld.

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

Our first concern will be with those Cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husbands and their wives and that are now in this country.

We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege.

The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied.

Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers.

I have directed the Departments of State and Justice and Health, Education, and Welfare to immediately make all the necessary arrangements to permit those in Cuba who seek freedom to make an orderly entry into the United States of America.

This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and their close relationship to those already here.

Today, with my signature, this system is abolished.

Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons.

Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of their birth for a more hopeful home in America.