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You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

Is that a new question or a 30-second question?

Five hundred thousand kids lost after-school programs because of your budget.

There's much we can do with them with respect to homeland security.

But I think it makes sense, I think most Americans in their guts know, that we ought to pass a sort of truth standard.

In 1990, there was a vast coalition put together to run Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.

I've been a hunter since I was a kid, 12, 13 years old.

Now I'm the senior Democrat on it.

Now, let me just share something.

If a president doesn't reach out and bring people in and be inclusive, then how are we going to get over those barriers?

I agree, we shouldn't have quotas.

Do you realize today in America, we spend $73 billion to help 10 million low- and middle-income families better afford college?

I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.

Well, I respect everything that the president has said and certainly respect his faith.

And people all find their ways to express it.

And frankly, I think we have a lot more loving of our neighbor to do in this country and on this planet.

I love the strong women around me.

I can't tell you how much I love my wife and our daughters.

And not only did she interest me, I guess you would say it was love at first sight.

I think the greatest possibilities of our country, our dreams and our hopes, are out there just waiting for us to grab onto them.

I ask you for your trust.

And God bless the United States of America.

It's the side to see the day that is coming, not to see the day that is gone. "

I love the optimism in that painting, because that's how I feel about America.

I want to thank you for listening tonight.

I'm asking for your vote.

Now Senator Kennedy has made some very strong criticisms of my part - or alleged part - in what has happened in Cuba.

There were eleven dictators in South America and in Central America when we came in, in 1953.

There isn't any question but that we will defend Guantanamo if it's attacked.

In the first place I've never suggested that Cuba was lost except for the present.

But when the president of the United States is doing something that's right, something that is for the purpose of defending the security of this country against surprise attack, he can never express regrets or apologize to anybody, including Mr. Khrushchev.

I think we have to make progress first in the field of employment.

Second, in the field of schools, we believe that there should be provisions whereby the federal government would give assistance to those districts who do want to integrate their schools.

Here we have a situation which causes all of us concern - causes us concern because of the denial of the rights of people to the equality which we think belongs to everybody.

We are a goldfish bowl before the world.

Let me s- look also at what I did.

There were seventy votes for our position and none for theirs.

Now looking to what we ought to do in the future.

We tried to provide an appropriation of a billion and a half for five years, on a long-term loan basis, which this Administration opposed.

Well Mr. Nixon has stated the record inaccurately in regard to the depressed area bill.

I was the floor manager.

Third, I believe we should step up the use of our surplus foods in these areas until we're able to get the people back to work.

I think in many ways this election is more important than any since 1932, or certainly almost any in this century.

On the question of the summit, I agree with the position of Mr. Nixon.

Now, many of the programs that I'm talking about - economic growth, care for the aged, development of our natural resources - build the strength of the United States.

We're using our steel capacity fifty-five per cent today.

But the thing that is right about the United States, it should be emphasized, is that less people go to bed hungry in the United States than in any major country in the world.

You can't tell me that a surplus food distribution of five cents po- per person - and that n- nearly six million Americans receiving that - is adequate.

We have never said flatly that we will defend Quemoy and Matsu if it's attacked.

I believe that when you get into a w- if you're going to get into war for the defense of Formosa, it ought to be on a clearly defined line.

This is a great country, but I think it could be a greater country; and this is a powerful country, but I think it could be a more powerful country.

I'm not satisfied to have fifty percent of our steel-mill capacity unused.

I'm not satisfied until every American enjoys his full constitutional rights.

That is the obligation upon our generation.

Is the United States standing still?

What kind of programs are we for?

I think that the means that I advocate will reach that goal better than the means that he advocates.

Because it isn't a question of how much the federal government spends; it isn't a question of which government does the most.

Well, the Vice President and I came to the Congress together 1946; we both served in the Labor Committee.

In my judgment the only policy that will work will be for effective supply and demand to be in balance.

I of course disagree with Senator Kennedy insofar as his suggestions as to what should be done uh - with re- on the farm program.

Uh - I can only say that my experience is there for the people to consider; Senator Kennedy's is there for the people to consider.

As far as aid for school construction is concerned, I favor that, as Senator Kennedy did, in January of this year, when he said he favored that rather than aid to s- teacher salaries.

Why did Senator Kennedy take that position then?

My objection here is not the cost in dollars.

And I might say that two-thirds of the Republicans in the House voted against a dollar twenty-five cent minimum wage and a majority of the Democrats sustained it - nearly two-thirds of them voted for the dollar twenty-five.

Every Republican on the Rules Committee voted against sending that bill to be considered by the members of the House of Representatives.

That's why we have to continue to be alert.

Now that isn't the test of whether America moves.

Now, the reason the Eisenhower Administration has moved, the reason that we've had the funds, for example, locally to build the schools, and the hospitals, and the highways, to make the progress that we have, is because this Administration has encouraged individual enterprise; and it has resulted in the greatest expansion of the private sector of the economy that has ever been witnessed in an eight-year period.

I think that's the big assignment, the big task, the big function of the federal government.

And I stand for programs that will mean growth and progress.

But it is also essential that he not allow a dollar spent that could be better spent by the people themselves.

The Kerr bill provided assistance to all those who were not on Social Security.

The means are at issue.

What I would propose, and I proposed it way back in March when I was a candidate in my own state of Illinois, I proposed $11.3 billion, specifically, in cuts in the Federal budget.

Why not leave it with them?

Well, I believe that conservation, at course, is worthy in and of itself.

When you have a report, as we did recently, that six out of 10 CONUS Divisions in this country - Continental United States Army Divisions - simply could not pass a readiness test: that two out of three divisions that were to be allocated to the so-called Rapid Deployment Force could not meet a readiness test.

That is just a downpayment, in my opinion.

But I am not in favor of the plan that is so costly.

We have also provided in our program for a $4 billion Community Trust Fund, and we've told you where the money is coming from.

And the problem is, with Governments - Federal, State and Local - taking $.44 out of every dollar earned, that the Federal Government has pre-empted too many of the tax sources, and that the cities.

And one is going to give you $122 more if you happen to be in that range of about a $20,000-a-year income.

This is 1980 and not 1966.

Now also, with regard to the figures about California.

Now, whether it is rightful, on a single issue, for anyone to advocate that someone should not be elected or not, I won't take a position on that.

Now, Governor Reagan is running on a platform that calls for a Constitutional amendment banning abortion.

On the Amendment that you mentioned, I abandoned it 15 years ago.

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all.

I believe the people of this country can, and together, we can begin the world over again.

A great historian, Henry Steele Commager, said that in their lust for victory, neither traditional party is looking beyond November.

Thank you, Mr. President, also for being part of this -- this debate.

I was in Pennsylvania with someone who had just graduated -- this was in Philadelphia -- and she said, "I've got my degree.

We have to make sure that we make it easier for kids to afford college.

I know what it takes to get this economy going.

I'm going to change that.

Jeremy, first of all, your future is bright.

And what I want to do, is build on the five million jobs that we've created over the last 30 months in the private sector alone.

Well what you're seeing in this country is 23 million people struggling to find a job.