We Intend To Keep The Peace -

The Most Fundamental Paradox Is That If We're Never To Use Force, We Must Be Prepared To Use It And To Use It Successfully. We Americans Don't Want War And We Don't Start Fights. We Don't Maintain A Strong Military Force To Conquer Or Coerce Others. The Purpose Of Our Military Is Simple And Straightforward: We Want To Prevent War.

We Should Measure Welfare's Success By How Many People Leave Welfare, Not By How Many Are Added.

Those Concerns Of A National Character-such As Air And Water Pollution That Do Not Respect State Boundaries, Or The National Transportation System, Or Efforts To Safeguard Your Civil Liberties-must, Of Course, Be Handled On The National Level.

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age. It Seeps Through The Walls Topped By Barbed Wire, It Wafts Across The Electrified Borders.

We Didn't Discover Our Values In A Poll Taken A Week Before The Convention.