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16,863
Mr. Carter wants to increase taxes for roughly half of the taxpayers of this country.
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16,871
I must remind him the Democrats have controlled the Congress for the last twenty-two years and they wrote all the tax bills.
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16,881
There is a considerable anti-Washington feeling throughout the country.
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16,883
In the last two years, we have restored integrity in the White House, and we've set high standards in the executive branch of the government.
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16,884
The anti-Washington feeling, in my opinion, ought to be focused on the Congress of the United States.
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16,887
I don't think the American people are getting their money's worth from the majority party that run this Congress.
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16,889
Congress is hiring people by the droves, and the cast as a result has gone up.
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16,892
They spend too much money on themselves.
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16,894
There's some question about their morality.
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16,895
It seems to me that in this election, the focus should not be on the executive branch but the corrections should come as the voters vote for their members of the House of Representatives or for their United States senator.
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16,901
Well, It seems to me that uh - we have a chance - the Republicans - to get a majority in the House of Representatives.
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16,907
I think it would be contrary to one of the basic concepts in our system of government - a system of checks and balances.
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16,910
I think the American people want a Republican president to check on any excesses that come out of the next Congress, if it is a Democratic Congress.
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16,914
President Eisenhower worked with a Democratic Congress very well.
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16,915
Even President Nixon, because he was a strong leader at least, worked with a Democratic Congress very well.
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16,920
This is government by stalemate, and we've seen almost a complete breakdown in the proper relationship between the president, who represents this country, and the Congress, who collectively also represent this country.
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16,921
We've had uh - Republican presidents before who've tried to run against a Democratic - uh Congress.
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16,922
And I don't think it's uh - the Congress is Mr. Ford's opponent; but if uh - if - if he insists that uh - that I be responsible for the Democratic Congress, of which I'm - have not been a part, then I think it's only fair that he be responsible for the Nixon administration in its entirety, of which he was a part.
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16,925
Mr. Ford, so far as I know, except for avoiding another Watergate, has not accomplished one single major program for this country.
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16,929
That story reported several times that I would lower taxes for low and middle-income families and uh - that correction was delivered to the White House and I am sure that the president knows about this uh - correction, but he still insists uh - on repeating an erroneous statement.
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16,939
What I have said is that the president ought to have a chance to appoint a chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to have a coterminous uh term; in other words, both of 'em serve the same four - four years.
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16,941
The president can modify the uh - economic structure of a country by public statements and general attitudes in the budget that he proposes.
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16,943
They assumed that the uh - inflation rate was because of excessive demand and uh - therefore put into effect tight constraint on the economy, very high interest rates, which is typical also of the Republican administration, uh - tried to increase the uh - the tax uh - payments by individuals, and cut the tax payments b...
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16,946
But uh - Mr. Burns uh - in that respect made a very serious mistake.
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16,950
The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board should be independent.
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16,954
They have done a good job in integrating the money supply with the uh - fiscal policy of the uh - executive and legislative branches of the government.
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16,955
It would be catastrophic if the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board became the tool of the political uh - party that was in power.
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16,964
We've done that by executive order.
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16,966
It doesn't seem to me that it's needed or necessary to have legislation in this particular regard.
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16,967
Uhh - I have recommended to the Congress, however - I'm sure you're familiar with this - legislation that would uhh - make it uhh - very uhh - proper in - in the right way, that the attorney general could go in and get the right for wiretapping under security cases.
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16,969
But even in this area, where I think new legislation would be justified, uh the Congress has not responded.
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16,970
So, I feel in that case, as well as in the reorganization of the intelligence agencies, as I've done, we have to do it by executive order.
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16,974
Well, one of the very serious things that's happened in our government in recent years, and has continued up until now, is a breakdown in the trust among our people in the [twenty-seven-minute delay]
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16,984
There has been too much government secrecy and not uh - not enough respect for the personal privacy of American citizens.
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16,987
Well, tonight we've had a chance to talk a lot about the past.
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16,989
Our nation in the last eight years has been divided as never before.
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16,993
And it's a time for government to understand and to cooperate with our people.
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16,995
This is uh - not compatible with the purpose of our nation.
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16,998
The government needs to be well-managed, efficient, economical, We need to have a government that's sensitive to our people's needs - to those who are poor, who don't have adequate health care, who have been cheated too long with our tax programs, who've been out of jobs, whose families have been torn apart.
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17,003
This is not the America that we've known in the past.
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17,004
It's not the America that we have to have in the future.
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17,005
I don't claim to know all the answers.
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17,006
But I've got confidence in my country.
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17,007
Our economic strength is still there.
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17,013
And I believe that we can bind our wounds.
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17,018
One of the major issues in this campaign is trust.
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17,020
A president can't be all things to all people.
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17,021
A president should be the same thing to all people.
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17,028
It was a superb occasion.
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17,030
In the first century of our nation's history our forefathers gave us the finest form of government in the history of mankind.
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17,035
We should never forget that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have.
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17,038
My mother and father, during the Depression, worked very hard to give me an opportunity to do better in our great country.
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17,039
Your mothers and fathers did the same thing for you and others.
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17,041
You and others in this great country have worked hard and done a great deal to give your children and your grandchildren the blessings of a better America.
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17,090
Before even the election day, something that none of those economists had even predicted had happened, that the economy was so worsened that I was openly saying that what we had thought on the basis of our plan could have brought a balanced budget -- no, that was no longer possible.
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17,092
Already, we have a recovery that has been going on for about 21 months to the point that we can now call it an expansion.
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17,105
The deficit is the result of excessive government spending.
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17,106
I do not, very frankly, take seriously the Congressional Budget Office projections, because they have been wrong on virtually all of them, including the fact that our recovery wasn't going to take place to begin with.
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17,107
But it has taken place.
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17,109
If the rate of increase in government spending can be held at 5 percent -- we're not far from there -- by 1989 that would have reduced the budget deficits down to a $30 or $40 billion level.
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17,119
I respect the President; I respect the Presidency, and I think he knows that.
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17,126
In other words, it doesn't converge as the President suggests.
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17,127
It gets larger even with growth.
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17,132
I get it down to a level below 2 percent of gross national product with a policy that's fair.
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17,141
Certainly we can find a coffeepot that costs something less than $7,000.
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17,148
I don't believe that Mr. Mondale has a plan for balancing the budget; he has a plan for raising taxes.
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17,161
I have fought for Social Security and Medicare and for things to help people who are vulnerable all my life, and I will do it as President of the United States.
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17,172
There is no question that we face this massive deficit, and almost everybody agrees unless we get it down, the chances for long-term, healthy growth are nil.
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17,175
No one else believes that's the case.
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17,176
I do, and I'm standing up to the issue with an answer that's fair.
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17,178
There's a difference between being a quarterback and a cheerleader, and when there's a real problem, a President must confront it.
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17,179
What I was referring to, of course, in the comment that you referred to was the situation in Lebanon.
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17,181
The first time -- and I did not criticize the President, because these things can happen -- once, and sometimes twice -- the second time the barracks in Lebanon were assaulted, as we all remember.
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17,183
Now, I believe that a President must command that White House and those who work for him.
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17,188
I am trying to provide leadership now, before the election, so that the American people can participate in that decision.
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17,192
And I think tonight, as we contrast for the first time our differing approach to government, to values, to the leadership in this country, I think as this debate goes forward, the American people will have for the first time a chance to weigh the two of us against each other.
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17,193
And I think, as a part of that process, what I am trying to say will come across, and that is that we must lead, we must command, we must direct, and a President must see it like it is.
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17,202
In mine, I happen to believe in the people and believe that the people are supposed to be dominant in our society -- that they, not government, are to have control of their own affairs to the greatest extent possible, with an orderly society.
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17,203
Now, having that, I think also that in leadership -- well, I believe that you find people, positions such as I'm in who have the talent and ability to do the things that are needed in the various departments of government.
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17,205
And you let those people go with the guidelines of overall policy, not looking over their shoulder and nitpicking the manner in which they go at the job.
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17,207
But I also believe something else about that.
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17,208
I believe that -- and when I became Governor of California, I started this, and I continue it in this office -- that any issue that comes before me, I have instructed Cabinet members and staff they are not to bring up any of the political ramifications that might surround the issue.
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17,218
And this is what we've been trying to do, is involve the Federal Government in such partnerships.
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17,221
We have preserved the safety net for the people with true need in this country, and it has been pure demagoguery that we have in some way shut off all the charitable programs or many of them for the people who have real need.
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17,227
It's not an opinion; it's a fact.
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17,228
And when the President was asked the other day, "What do you want to cut in the budget?
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17,229
'', he said, "Cut those things I asked for but didn't get.''
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17,231
The second fact is that the housing unit for senior citizens that the President dedicated in Buffalo was only made possible through a Federal assistance program for senior citizens that the President's budget sought to terminate.
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17,232
So, if he'd had his way, there wouldn't have been any housing project there at all.
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17,233
This administration has taken a meat cleaver out, in terms of Federal-assisted housing, and the record is there.
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17,236
Well, let me just respond with regard to Social Security.
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17,239
Any proposals that I made at that time were at the request of the chairman, a Democrat, of one of the leading committees, who said we have to do something before the program goes broke and the checks bounce.
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17,240
And so, we made a proposal.
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17,243
Indeed, we had to borrow $17 billion to pay the checks.
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17,244
And then I asked for a bipartisan commission, which I'd asked for from the beginning, to sit down and work out a solution.
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17,249
Well, I was raised to have a faith and a belief and have been a member of a church since I was a small boy.
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17,251
But I have -- thanks to my mother, God rest her soul -- the firmest possible belief and faith in God.
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17,252
And I don't believe -- I believe, I should say, as Lincoln once said, that I could not -- I would be the most stupid man in the world if I thought I could confront the duties of the office I hold if I could not turn to someone who was stronger and greater than all others.
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17,258
And, as I say, I don't believe that I could carry on unless I had a belief in a higher authority and a belief that prayers are answered.
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17,263
I know the threats that are made against me.
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