I Am Acutely Aware That You Have

Speaker, With Mixed Emotions We Mark The 50th Anniversary Of The Turkish Genocide Of The Armenian People. In Taking Notice Of The Shocking Events In 1915, We Observe This Anniversary With Sorrow In Recalling The Massacres Of Armenians And With Pride In Saluting Those Brave Patriots Who Survived To Fight On The Side Of Freedom During World War I.

Let America Symbolize Humanity's Struggle To Conquer Nature And Master Technology. The Time Has Now Come For Our Government To Facilitate The Individual's Control Over His Or Her Future - And Of The Future Of America.

In A Political Sense, There Is One Problem That Currently Underlies All Of The Others. That Problem Is Making Government Sufficiently Responsive To The People. If We Don't Make Government Responsive To The People, We Don't Make It Believable. And We Must Make Government Believable If We Are To Have A Functioning Democracy.

I Am Committed To Furthering The Self-determination Of Indian Communities But Without Terminating The Special Relationship Between The Federal Government And The Indian People. I Am Strongly Opposed To Termination. Self-determination Means That You Can Decide The Nature Of Your Tribe's Relationship With The Federal Government Within The Framework Of The Self-determination Act, Which I Signed In January Of 1975.

Truth Is The Glue That Holds Government Together.