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    "ocrText": "Originally Processed With FOIA(s):\nFOIA Number:\nS\nS\nFOIA\nMARKER\nThis is not a textual record. This is used as an\nadministrative marker by the George Bush Presidential\nLibrary Staff.\nRecord Group/Collection:\nGeorge H.W. Bush Presidential Records\nCollection/Office of Origin:\nSpeechwriting, White House Office of\nSeries:\nSpeech File Draft Files\nSubseries:\nChron File, 1989-1993\nOA/ID Number:\n13618\nFolder ID Number:\n13618-005\nFolder Title:\nCharlotte Bush/Quayle Fundraiser 4/27/92 [OA 6101] [2]\nStack:\nRow:\nSection:\nShelf:\nPosition:\nG\n26\n18\n1\n5\nAPR-23-1992 16:11 FROM\nTO\n94562223 P.02\nUNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION\nDEPARTMENT\nOFFICE OF THE SECRETARY\nSTATES\na\nApril 23, 1992\nMEMO TO PAUL\nFROM LESLYE ARSHT\nI've suggested word changes on the Charlotte speech as we\nusually do. But, I've also included a proposed \"alternate insert\nwith a local anecdote\" about Charlotte 2000. This idea came out\nof a meeting Lamar had with the speechwriters yesterday. They\nasked for local stories to go in POTUS speeches and we are\ncreating a process for sending them. However, this is the first\none.\nThanks.\nann MARYLAND AVE.. S.W. WAGHINGTON. D.C. 20303\nDocument No. 323546ss\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE:\n4/22/92\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURS. 4/23/92 3:00 pm\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nSUBJECT:\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nHORNER\nSKINNER\nMCBRIDE\nSCOWCROFT\nMOORE\nDARMAN\nPETERSMEYER\nBRADY\nPORTER\nBROMLEY\nROGICH\nCALIO\nROLLINS\nDEMAREST\nSMITH\nYEUTTER\nFITZWATER\nFINDLAY\nGRAY\nHOLIDAY\nKAUFMAN\nBOSKIN\nMCGROARTY\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,\nx2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, with a copy\nto this office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nto DrMcH. Trm\nPHILLIP D. BRADY\nAssistant to the President\nand Staff Secretary\nExt. 2702\nDDJCMN\n32 APR 22 P2: 16\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph.D. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it.\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\nwhat\ndoes\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nthis\nmean\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, manufacturing exports are leading the\nAmerican exports,\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort -- every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy -- kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$\nanti-poverty program. Now it's\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year. Multiply that a\nfew times and that's a cradle-to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms -- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and SO many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\nwhat mean does\nMore than lip service to reform and then full service to\nthe\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve a problem by creating a program -- more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\nefecty refer have Doction to\nthe denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nwhy not limit Congress to\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nto\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\npin refer what to does\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\nDoes the mean twi\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\nwin what the fall election\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nlaws\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n# # #\naction B. Male\nCC: PW&JDF\nDocument No. 323546ss\n92 APR 23 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nAll: 23\nDATE: 4/22/92\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURS. 4/23/92 3:00 pm\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nSUBJECT:\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nHORNER\nSKINNER\nMCBRIDE\nSCOWCROFT\nMOORE\nDARMAN\nPETERSMEYER\nBRADY\nPORTER\nBROMLEY\nROGICH\nCALIO\nROLLINS\nDEMAREST\nSMITH\nYEUTTER\nFITZWATER\nFINDLAY\nGRAY\nHOLIDAY\nKAUFMAN\nBOSKIN\nMCGROARTY\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,\nx2930 no later than 3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, with a copy\nto this office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nMANA P.2 AA\nPHILLIP D. Br\nAssistant to the P\nand Staff Secre\nExt. 2702\nDDJCMN\n32 APR 22 P2: 16\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph. D.. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all 'to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it.\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports, manufacturing exports, are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort -- every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nwe will have\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we ve saved American\n(msumery\nbusiness $10 billion S to $20 billion in regulatory costs. That are\nand\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\nmeans frenamply lown writing bills fn consumers and\nmore jobs and factories in america\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy -- kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$\nanti-poverty program. Now it's\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year. Multiply that a\nfew times and that's a cradle-to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms -- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've.\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\nMore than lip service to reform -- and then full service to\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve a problem by creating a program -- more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\n-- the denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n# # #\nApril 23, 1992\nDavid --\nI just flipped through comments for BQ-Charlotte and saw that Tom\nScully had put in different numbers from that of Fish Brown re\nthe Medicaid sentence. I called over to OMB about it and they\nsaid to go with Scully's numbers.\nMichele\nEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT\nOFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET\nWASHINGTON, D.C. 20503\nNOTICE:\nEnclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of\nManagement and Budget (OMB). Such comments do not necessarily\nrepresent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the\nOffice of Management and Budget. If you wish to have the\nDirector's personal comments, please let me know -- and contact\nme if you have any questions.\nIf our proposed substantive changes are not made, please let\nus know before the material is prepared\nJames UM\nAssociate Director for\nLegislative Reference\nand Administration\nDocument No. 323546ss\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\nDATE: 4/22/92\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURS. 4/23/92 3:00 pm\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nSUBJECT:\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nHORNER\nSKINNER\nMCBRIDE\nSCOWCROFT\nMOORE\nDARMAN\nPETERSMEYER\nBRADY\nPORTER\nBROMLEY\nROGICH\nCALIO\nROLLINS\nDEMAREST\nSMITH\nYEUTTER\nFITZWATER\nFINDLAY\nGRAY\nHOLIDAY\nKAUFMAN\nBOSKIN\nMCGROARTY\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,\nx2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, with a copy\nto this office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nSee Comments\nPHILLIP D. BRADY\nAssistant to the President\nand Staff Secretary\nExt. 2702\nDDJCMN\n32 APR 22 P2: 16\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph.D. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nmention\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nAlex\nmomellan? I don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\n-Rep.\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nCompession\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\nfrom\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\ncharlotte\npark has some activity in it.\nVery\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nhelpful\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nto\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nAdmin.\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\nSciently\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n5178\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\" Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports, manufacturing exports, are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort -- every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\nCharbotte is represented by one of Congers true health reform\nexperts - - Alex mcmellan, and were waking together\nto\nreform the health 6 care system.\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\nScully\n15175\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy -- kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$ 1 billion anti-poverty program. Now it's\n$$\n150\nBillion and growing at a/rate of % %17 a year. Multiply that a\na year\naverage\nand by 38% last year\nalone\nfew times and that's a cradle to grave boondoggle. And no matter\n(Too\nglmst\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\nSaulity\n5170\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms -- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\nMore than lip service to reform -- and then full service to\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve a problem by creating a program -- more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\n-- the denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n# # #\nDocument No. 323546ss\nWHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM\n92 APR 23 P2: 59\nDATE: 4/22/92\nACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: THURS. 4/23/92 3:00 pm\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nSUBJECT:\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nACTION FYI\nACTION FYI\nVICE PRESIDENT\nHORNER\nSKINNER\nMCBRIDE\nSCOWCROFT\nMOORE\nDARMAN\nPETERSMEYER\nBRADY\nPORTER\nBROMLEY\nROGICH\nCALIO\nROLLINS\nDEMAREST\nSMITH\nYEUTTER\nFITZWATER\nFINDLAY\nGRAY\nHOLIDAY\nKAUFMAN\nBOSKIN\nMCGROARTY\nREMARKS:\nPlease forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty, RM. 122,\nx2930, no later than 3:00 p.m., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, with a copy\nto this office. Thank you.\nRESPONSE:\nNo Comment MauaShech\n& US\nPHILLIP D. BRADY\nAssistant to the President\nand Staff Secretary\nExt. 2702\nDDJCMN\n32 APR 22 P2: 16\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph.D. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it.\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports, manufacturing exports, are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort -- every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy -- kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$\nanti-poverty program. Now it's\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year. Multiply that a\nfew times and that's a cradle-to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms -- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\nMore than lip service to reform -- and then full service to\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve a problem by creating a program -- more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\n-- the denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n###\nSinon\nMemorandum for Speechwriting Staff\nFrom:\nDan McGroarty\nRegarding: B/QCharlotto\nPlease return your comments to Room\n122 by:\n2pm tomorrow\nAPR 22 1992\nToday's Date:\nDDJCMN\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph.D. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it.\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\ngood language + use of real examples.\nshould connect with this + future\nandiences.\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports, manufacturing exports, are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort -- every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, inthilok to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. all And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\nЛ\nrich or poor\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it, with or without\nthe permission of the NEA If the business as usual help won't thailt\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nwe\"ll\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the do\nit\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nwithout\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nthem.\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy kind of like\nMedicaid\n8\nstarted\nas\na\n$$\nanti poverty program. Now it\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year Multiply that a\nfew times and that's a cradle to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nmedical burevacracy\nwhat those whose first resort is new big government program won't\nThis doesn't funite make the point.\nmake anyone\nhea 1thy.\nPlus, we not against Medicaid.\n7\nwith the self perpetuating features of the old big government\nIt's clear:\nprograms- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk\nSome pay\nMore than lip service to reform -- and then full service to\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nYougot\nThey got\nform solve a problem by creating a program, more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\npoint\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nneeds\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\nwork\nthe denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\nlots of\npeople like\navoiding blame\n4\nrish\nI\nall the lawsn'ts withess\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money.\nare There you getting\n^\nyour\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too biamony's big\nand spends too much.\nworth?\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthe\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nwe won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nnot of the free world, but\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n###\nBunton\nMemorandum for Speechwriting Staff\nFrom:\nDan McGroarty\nRegarding: B/Qchaolotto\nPlease return your comments to\nRoom 122 by:\n2pm tomorrow\nToday's Date: APR 22 1992\nDDJCMN\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph.D. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it.\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports, manufacturing exports, are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort -- every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\nThere's no White House Gridloch only Congressional Badblick-\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong. (They are Democrats)\nwhen used tabe\nI It used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering Do into others.\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not \"sue unto\nothers as they\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nsue unto you.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nrefers baca to people's rights not legal system\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nused be\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nwhen N.C. America kich -olf\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nstick out your wallet and say AHH.\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$ anti-poverty program. Now it's\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year. Multiply that a\nfew times and that's a cradle-to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms -- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\n0000L\nMore than lip service to reform -- and then full service to\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve a problem by creating a program -- more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\n-- the denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\ngotting your dollar's worth\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n# # #\nAarhus\nMemorandum for Speechwriting Staff\nFrom:\nDan McGroarty\nRegarding: B/Q Chartote\nPlease return your comments to Room\n122 by:\n2pm tomorrow\nAPR 22 1992\nToday's Date:\nDr\nI like this - it's\nterrific!\n-Mmor wordage changes, that'sall. DDJCMN\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph.D. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it. !!! Goodone-\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once ed again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports manufacturing exports are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much more we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap tab gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus business expansion and\nthus job creation. None of our major industrial competitors major\nindustrial competitors tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\ncapital gains\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate\nsounds the vig. like economies the youresaying high rate\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our ffort every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nwho\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nIn\nJanuary we I announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we ive blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nOn\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say that the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\ncommitted to action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change make this country a better country -- I need\nbeliPresident\nyour help to serve for four more years.\n--the need for\nbroys\nI have talked often about the need for reform And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our my Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand want to squarely keep the behind business the -as- status usual approach. quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\nHe aplubbed. or 5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians doctors not delivering\nthis\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThatisnotthe America I want\nThat's wrong. ^ That is not the America we want. People should\ninstead of\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nwe won't let\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers\nlobby anyone should stand in the way.\nour\nsend\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first-class education. Know\nwe expect Should\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nUnfortunately But educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nToday, we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That S wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, pall parents deserve the right to choose their children's\nrichorpoor, or inthemidate,\nhow about a Section on $ Solvroiden. won't the can meithmall govt. the work call tor do to a X of fn this\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nmeant goingtoget you weref\nit\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can don't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and or death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy -- kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$\nanti-poverty program. Now it's\neh?\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year. Multiply that a\nConfusing.\nfew times and that's a cradle-to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster!Tex\ndisaster\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet stare the competition, I've seen this country change --\nintheface-andwin-\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\nMore than lip service to reform and then full service to\nAnd you can besure\nspecial interests.\nThe Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve your problem by creating a program -- more power to\nhuman being.\nthe bureaucracy, less to the indi idual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\n-- the denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\npeople.,beliare\nexpand\nall ofus\nhas\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\nmore.\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists time to limit the terms of Members of\npoliticians >it's\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and certaining closer to the people.\nTermlimity\nwill help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nforthetaxdollars.,Heypay. pay.\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve Things like\nwholesome families good jobs, Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nthat's\nfour more years.\nYouknow,\n9\n^ These last few years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets and helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals.\nAnd\nwe\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America, and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nfire storm\nengulf the Middle East in its worst lagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia.\nAnd\nwe\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbrutal\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\nat States United will be when and my of the\nTaybeah what section forthe Polus u.s. 2000.\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\n(n\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\n&\nschools,\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\nfamily world..\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nyear 2000\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n# # #\nDDJCMN\nWednesday, April 22, 1922\n12:00 p.m.\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: BUSH-QUAYLE FUNDRAISER\nCHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA\nMONDAY, APRIL 27, 1992\nThank you for that warm welcome. You know, coming into\nCharlotte is no longer a small-city experience -- I can't believe\nyour airport is now the 8th busiest in the country. The old saw\nused to be, you had to go through Atlanta if you wanted to get to\nHeaven; now they say it is much more fun if you go through\nCharlotte.\nIt is wonderful to see so many good friends here. Governor\nJim Martin and I have a lot in common. We both have to deal with\na House full of Democrats -- we don't need his Ph. to realize\nthat's bad chemistry. You know, people say they think Jim will\nhave a hard time making the transition from politics to medicine.\nI don't think so! I'll bet it won't take him anytime at all to\nlearn to spend Wednesday afternoons on the golf course.\nBeing\nhere at Carowinds, I'm tempted to compare Congress to an\namusement park, but that wouldn't really be fair. An amusement\npark has some activity in it.\nI have been looking forward to being with you tonight, there\nis so much I admire about this city -- especially the way you\nsupport two concerns that are close to my heart -- education and\nservice to others. Your \"Foundation for the Carolinas\" shows the\npriority you place on community efforts. Many people here in\n2\nCharlotte have been named \"points of light\". Charlotte has good\nreason to be a proud city.\nI could talk about what you are doing in this great city all\nnight, but I especially want to thank each of you who have\ncontributed so generously to our re-election campaign. Your\nsupport is very important and I very much appreciate your\ncommitment to the goals of my Presidency.\nI know many here are concerned about the economy. That's my\nnumber one concern as well. This month we had some heartening\nnews about the United States economy. All around the world,\nconsumers and companies buy American goods and services in ever-\ngreater amounts, despite the sluggish performance of some of\ntheir own economies. U.S. exports -- I look around this room and\nI see many who are aware of this -- U.S. exports are experiencing\na surge, rising seven percent in February to a one-month record\nhigh of almost $38 billion. And once again, I think in a good\nsense, American exports, manufacturing exports, are leading the\nway.\nThis good news underscores a fundamental truth about our own\ncompetitiveness: If we're to succeed economically at home, we\nmust succeed economically abroad. And the evidence is\nindisputable: Open markets and free trade mean new jobs for\nAmerican workers and certainly growth for American companies.\nOver the past four decades, trade-related jobs in our country\nhave grown three times faster than overall American job creation.\n3\nThere's still much we can do to make America more\ncompetitive. And one of our serious economic problems right now\nis the cost of capital -- it's too high. A high cap-gains tax\nrate discourages investment and, thus, business expansion and,\nthus job creation. None of our industrial competitors -- major\nindustrial competitors -- tax capital gains at rates comparable\nto ours. Germany, as some of you know, Germany doesn't tax them\nat all. And in Japan, an entrepreneur who sells the company that\nhe's built from scratch pays a tax of one percent. It makes no\nsense that we ask our workers to compete with those vigorous\neconomies with a much higher capital gains rate.\nAnd yet, the very people who complain about America's\nability to compete block our effort every effort to lower the\ncapital gains tax. A lower rate will benefit virtually everyone\nin America, not only those who run a business, but anyone who\nowns a house, or a farm, or share of stock, seeks a better job.\nSo it's time to stop punishing the pursuit of excellence. And\nit's time, I think, to cut the tax on capital gains.\nFor us to compete we also must lighten up the regulatory\nburden that Washington imposes on every American business. Last\nJanuary we announced a 90-day moratorium on federal regulations.\nWherever possible, we blocked those regulations that discourage\ngrowth and we're accelerating those that encourage growth. So\nfar, the preliminary estimates show that we've saved American\nbusiness $10 billion to $20 billion in regulatory costs.\nWednesday, I'm going to make an announcement about the next step\n4\nin our battle against these excessive regulations, but for now I\nsimply want to say the days of overregulation are just that --\nthey are over.\nThere's been a lot of talk about change this election year.\nMost of it has been just that -- talk. But that's not good\nenough if we're going to build a better America. We need people\nof action. People with the experience to know what to do, and\nhow to do it. People of principle -- willing to stand up against\npowerful special interests. That's why I need your support -- to\nfight for change -- make this country a better country -- I need\nyour help to serve for four more years.\nI have talked often about the need for reform. And I've\nacted -- made specific and far-reaching proposals. I've called\nfor reform of our education system, our health care system, our\ncourts and our election campaigns. Right down the line, issue\nafter issue, from crime to Congress, our Administration has\nproposed fundamental changes to help us solve pressing national\nproblems.\nWe have had some successes in our efforts to change things -\n- but more often than not roadblocks stand in the way. They are\nthe special interests. They are not interested in change. They\nstand squarely behind the status quo. They may be powerful.\nThey may be influential. They may be well-connected. But let me\ntell you this: they are wrong.\nIt used to be that a doctor's first concern was about the\ncare of the patient not the chance of a malpractice suit. You\n5\nknow what I'm talking about -- obstetricians not delivering\nbabies, parents not coaching Little League, volunteers not\nhelping the elderly -- all because of the fear of lawsuits.\nThat's wrong. That is not the America we want. People should\nspend more time helping each other, and a little less time suing\neach other.\nSure, our legal system is complicated. People's rights must\nbe protected, but it desperately needs reform -- and no lawyers'\nlobby should stand in the way.\nIt used to be that we were confident that when we sent our\nchildren to school they would get a first class education. Know\nhow to read and write -- and understand something about the\nworld. We also believed that education includes teaching values\nand responsibility -- you know, \"right from wrong\". That builds\ncharacter and that's the way it should be.\nBut educational achievement has been sliding for years. And\nnow we thank our lucky stars that our child's school isn't one\nwhere they find a gun in someone's locker, or drug dealing in the\nplayground. That's wrong. That is not what we want for our\nchildren. And our teachers -- they are also counselors, mentors,\nsocial workers, and surrogate parents. God bless them for the\nwork they do. They deserve our best effort to make the system\nbetter. Our America 2000 reforms are gaining steam. Break-the-\nmold schools -- national standards and testing, community by\ncommunity. And whether it's among public schools, or private, or\nreligious, parents deserve the right to choose their children's\n6\nschools. It's a giant undertaking to change the nation's\neducation system -- but we are going to do it -- with or without\nthe permission of the NEA.\nIt used to be that going to the hospital didn't conjure up\nimages of financial ruin. And while our health care is still the\nfinest quality care in the world, too many people can't qualify\nfor health insurance or can't afford it. And the cost of even\nminor surgery has gone through the roof. Many poor people would\nprefer going to a family doctor but end up going to hospital\nemergency rooms for routine medical treatment. Sometimes they\nwait for hours, because the doctors and nurses have to treat\nlife-and-death emergencies first. And then frustrated, over-\nworked hospital staff refer to them derogatorily as GOMERS --\nmeaning \"get out of my emergency room\". This too is wrong. And\nit's got to change.\nOur health care proposal is comprehensive. It makes health\ninsurance accessible and affordable for all Americans -- without\nthrowing out the finest quality health care in the world. We\nmust not go the way of nationalized health care with its long\nlines, impersonal service, and fewer options for consumers. If\nthat's what we wanted, we'd put health care under the Department\nof Motor Vehicles. A brand new big bureaucracy -- kind of like\nMedicaid -- started as a $$\nanti-poverty program. Now it's\n$$\nand growing at a rate of % a year. Multiply that a\nfew times and that's a cradle-to-grave boondoggle. And no matter\nwhat those whose first resort is a new big government program --\n7\nwith all the self-perpetuating features of the old big government\nprograms -- nationalized health care would be a national\ndisaster.\nIn these and so many areas that demand reform, our\ngovernment can play a pivotal and positive role in addressing\nmany of our nation's most critical problems. I've been in\ngovernment for many years. I've been in the Congress, and I've\nserved this country -- in uniform and as a diplomat -- overseas.\nI've also run a business, met a payroll, created jobs. I know\nhow to meet the competition. I've seen this country change --\nsometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. So I think I\nbring something to the table when it comes to taking on the\nstatus quo.\nYou need to know the system in order to change it. If you\ndon't, you won't know what needs change. \"Change for change\nsake\" is meaningless and empty. It takes more than happy talk.\nMore than lip service to reform -- and then full service to\nspecial interests. The Democratic Party will always revert to\nform -- solve a problem by creating a program -- more power to\nthe bureaucracy, less to the individual. They don't understand\nthat people are yearning for a return to responsibility, that old\nidea that refuses to go out of style. Liberal Democrats don't\nunderstand that people have had it with the \"no-fault\" lifestyle\n-- the denial that actions have consequences. Parents want their\nkids brought up to know that. And the people have a right to a\ngovernment that understands that as well.\n8\nThe American people know -- as government tries to do more\nand more, it delivers less and less. Next year, the federal\ngovernment will spend $1.5 trillion dollars of your money. There\nis just no question about it. The federal government is too big\nand spends too much.\nMajor reforms are in order. First, it's time for the\nCongress to govern itself by the laws it imposes on others. No\nmore special treatment. And it's time for sweeping reform of\ncampaign financing -- time to eliminate the special interest\nPACs. It's time for real spending reform; time for the President\nto have what 43 governors have -- the line-item veto. And I'm\ngoing to take that case to the American people this fall.\nFinally, it's time to make Congress a citizen assembly, not\na club for careerists -- time to limit the terms of Members of\nCongress. My term is limited to two terms and I want to serve\nboth of them -- so I don't see that it would hurt to have\nCongress limited to six terms for a member of the House and two\nterms for a senator. It would keep government more active, more\nvital and closer to the people.\nIt will help us get government back to the basics. Focus on\nwhat people want, what they need, what they deserve. Things like\nwholesome families, good jobs. Safe streets, good schools, a\nstrong economy and a strong country. If you think about it\nthat's nothing more than a working definition of freedom. That's\nwhat I believe, and why I am asking for your support for another\nfour years.\n9\nThese last years have seen our world turned upside down.\nThink how much we have accomplished. Think of our blessings.\nWith God's help and with hard work to support our convictions,\nwe've helped change the world. We've helped the peoples of\nEastern Europe and the old Soviet empire peacefully throw off the\nyoke of communism. And today we're aiding their transition to\nfree markets, helping them reduce their nuclear arsenals. And we\nstood up against dictators and exporters of totalitarian\nrevolution in Latin America and we've helped democracy take root\nin nearly every country of our hemisphere.\nWhen a ruthless tyrant overran Kuwait and threatened to\nengulf the Middle East in its worst conflagration, we protected\nthe people of Israel and Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And we\norganized an unprecedented world coalition and we liberated\nKuwait from the aggressor. And in the process we accomplished a\nbreakthrough sought by every President from Truman to Reagan --\nwe brought Arab neighbors face to face with Israel for the first\ntime at the peace table.\nAnd we won the Cold War and we stopped Saddam's aggression\nbecause, 12 years ago, we renewed our faith in our values and we\nstrengthened our defenses. The United States is now the\nundisputed leader of the entire world. And we will keep\nourselves strong, and we will stay engaged in world politics.\nThis is no time to pull back and to retreat and to be afraid of\nthe changes in the world. In world security and in world\nmarkets, we will remain engaged.\n10\nAnd we have a mission together to carry on the American\nDream for new generations. And with your help and with\ngrassroots action, we can win a mandate to lead this country for\nfour more years. And we can keep our country open to the\ncontributions of immigrants, of trade, of ideas. And we can work\ntogether and win with our plans to reform our schools, our health\ncare system, our very system of government. And we can assure\nthat when we reach the new century, America still will be the\nstrongest, the bravest, the freest nation on the face of the\nEarth.\nThank you all. And may God bless each and every one of you\nand our great country, the United States of America. Thank you\nvery much.\n# # #\n(Duggan/Simon)\nApril 23, 1992\nDraft One\nDereg\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:\nREGULATION REFORM CEREMONY\nROSE GARDEN\nWEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1992\n2:00 P.M.\n[Acknowledgments] A warm welcome to the White House for\nall of you -- especially the many grass-roots fighters for\neconomic freedom who have travelled long distances to be here.\nYou honor us with your presence.\nRemember, the first residents of the White House were men\nlike Jefferson and Madison. They were freedom fighters, they\nwere revolutionaries. Two hundred years ago they unleashed\nforces of social and economic freedom that gave the world an\nentirely new paradigm for man's relationship to government. They\nmade the United States a land of opportunity -- a haven for the\npoor and the oppressed. 11\nOur laws and our system of government did not promise\nmaterial well-being, but they guaranteed personal freedom. In\njust one century's time, millions of poor people came here from\nevery corner of the Old World. And because America empowered\nthem to use their God-given talents to the fullest, people who\ncame to our shores with nothing but faith and imagination made us\nthe richest nation on earth -- poetry's New Colossus. 11\nWhen a great economic shock hit the world six decades ago,\nour governing elites suffered a lapse of faith in our traditions\nof freedom and responsibility. Vainly, they embraced the project\nof social engineering -- the notion that human actions, human\n2\nchoices, could be manipulated as easily as civil engineers\nmanipulate stone and steel. They began a cycle of rule by\nbureaucracy. Like the Lilliputians swarming over Gulliver,\nbureaucracy cramped and pinned the colossus of American freedom.\nThe age of social engineering suppressed our precious\nheritage of limited government, of the rule of law, of the\naccountability of citizen legislators. Our Congress shirked its\nown responsibilities while embracing many premises of the command\neconomy. Congress passed laws mandating Americans to dance to\nthe tune of abstract social and economic goals -- while Congress\nhanded off to a new class of bureaucrats the details of the\nchoreography.\nUnder the rule of bureaucracy, we learned some hard lessons.\nWe learned that lonely keepers of the flame of economic freedom -\n- men like the late Friedrich Hayek -- were right after all. The\nera of bureaucracy and regulation produced one example after\nanother validating Hayek's observation: that rule by bureaucracy\nundermines the true rule of law, that government regulation\ncauses unintended consequences.\nWe've seen abstract safety rules undermine safety: When\ngovernment mandates make ladders more and more costly to\nconsumers, for instance, more people climb on chairs and\nstepstools -- which are far less safe. We've seen that abstract\nenvironmental rules can harm the environment. Consider the case\nof used lubricating oil: Now it has a very low market value --\njust enough to provide collectors an incentive to haul it away\n3\nfor free and sell it for recycling. But if new bureaucratic\nhandling methods are imposed, collectors will refuse to haul it\naway unless they are paid to pick it up. To avoid paying to have\nit hauled away, holders of used oil will be tempted to dump it\ninto the trash or into storm drains or streams or lakes.\nI could go on all day with examples of government by\nabstraction and its tragic collisions with human reality: How\nhighway fatalities increased when Congress mandated the fuel\nefficiency of our cars. How a regulation system, plump with\nnoble intentions, keeps life-saving drugs and medical devices\nfrom patients who need them.\nBut we're here today for another purpose. We're here to\nmark that the era of unaccountable government and unreasoning\nbureaucracy is coming to an end. A new American revolution is\nunder way -- and you and I and millions of like-minded people are\nleading it. 11\nIn my State of the Union Address, I lit a fire under our\nregulatory reformers and gave them 90 days to produce dramatic\nresults. Today marks the 91st day -- and let me report our\nreformers have come through with flying colors. [details]\nToday I am ordering a 90-day extension on the moratorium on\nregulations, and during this time I expect more deregulation --\nmore accomplishments for freedom and common sense. Through the\nexecutive order I will sign in a moment, I also am making\npermanent an essential reform to bring all federal regulation\nunder the central oversight of the Office of Management and\n4\nBudget. This will eliminate a major cause of governmental\nconfusion, cross-purposes, and unintended consequences.\nAnd we'll ask Congress to do its part. I'm asking today for\nhistoric new rescission authority to block harmful regulations.\nAnd I'm putting Congress on notice: I will veto any bill that\nattempts to put burdensome new regulations on the backs of our\nfamilies, our workers, and our businesses. 11\nLet me be clear about our aims: This is not a three-month\nor six-month effort. This is not an exercise in adjusting or\nfine-tuning the system. The system is broken beyond repair. 11\nThere will be no -- I repeat, no -- return to business as usual.\n11 We are engaged in a revolution to overthrow the cycle of rule\nby bureaucracy. We are fighting to regain -- and never again\ngive up -- fundamental freedoms. 11\nOur campaign against bureaucracy meshes with our efforts to\nlimit the terms of congressmen and make them more accountable.\nIt fits also with our crusade against the tyranny of nuisance\nlawsuits that mock our time-honored traditions of justice. In\nshort, there's a common purpose linking the all of our efforts to\nrenew the spirit and practice of limited government. 11\nLet me leave you with one final thought. It begins with one\nof the classic pronouncements of a man I admire, Yogi Berra.\nAfter Yogi became a sportsman of national renown, friends from\nhis old neighborhood on the south side of St. Louis organized a\ndinner in his honor. Yogi was overcome with emotion when he rose\nto accept the many testimonials. His voice quavered as he began\n5\nto speak. \"First,\" he said, \"let me thank from the bottom of my\nheart all the people who have made this evening necessary.\" 111\nThe relevance of Yogi's story is this: The freedom-loving\npeople of this country -- the people of ingenuity -- are not\nsimply making renewal of limited government possible. 11 They're\nmaking it necessary. 11 They're making it inevitable. 11 One of\nour gifted young intellectuals, Chris DeMuth, put it this way:\n\"The pace of technological change has become so rapid that new\nmarkets are established quickly, before regulators have time to\nsuppress them.\"\nLet's take heart from that wise insight as we work to renew\nour basic freedoms. There is no doubt in my mind: The day is\ncoming when we will put the final wrecking ball to the\ndiscredited system of the social engineers. We will restore this\ncountry. We will build it back, sturdy in the radical faith in\nfreedom that is the legacy of our Founding Fathers.\n[Signing ceremony]\n#\n#\n#\nAPR-23-1992 16:12 FROM\nTO\n94562223 P.05\nINSERT FOR P.O.T.U.S. SPEECH--CHARLOTTE\nThe nation's six education goals are:\n1) Children start school ready to learn.\n2) 90% high school graduation rate.\n3) All Children learning to a world class standard in at least\nmath, science, English, history, and geography.\n4) First in the world in math and science.\n5) A skilled, literate workforce and responsible citizens.\n6) Drug-free/violence-free schools.\nA year ago we launched a four-part strategy to achieve these\ngoals called AMERICA 2000.\n1) Break-the mold New American Schools\n2) World class academic standards and voluntary national exams.\n3) Flexibility for teachers and principals.\n4) School choices for families.\nI have a complaint to lodge with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School\nDistrict. They stole Superintendent John Murphy right out of my\nbackyard. For years, John did a great job in Prince Georges\nCounty, Maryland. Now he's working wonders down here. Recently,\nthe school board passed his proposal for nine magnet schools--\nscience, math, technology, communications, and others. My\ncongratulations to him for taking bold steps to achieve the\nnation's education goals, and my thanks to him and Governor Jim\nMartin for their support for Charlotte 2000.\n###\nNOTE--John Murphy was very skillful in getting magnet schools,\nwhich are choice schools. But our guidance is don't call them\nthat."
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