UN General Assembly
1968

57. All the machinery of my country’s Government is deeply involved in this endeavour under the guidance of the Head of State, His Excellency Mr. Joaquín Balaguer, a man whose outstanding moral qualities are recognized even by his political opponents. His personal capacities, together with his acknowledged intellectual ability and his keen sense of social values, are the human qualities underlying the implementation of a policy of rehabilitation and betterment in a community in whose least conspicuous strata there are restless stirrings and the germs of political strife proliferate.