Opportunities for all Americans will increase if we move forward in fair housing and work to ensure women’s rights, provide for equitable treatment in pension benefits and Individual Retirement Accounts, facilitate child care, and enforce delinquent parent support payments.

It’s not just the home but the workplace and community that sustain our values and shape our future.  So, I ask your help in assisting more communities to break the bondage of dependency.  Help us to free enterprise by permitting debate and voting “yes” on our proposal for enterprise zones in America.  This has been before you for 2 years.  Its passage can help high-unemployment areas by creating jobs and restoring neighborhoods.

A society bursting with opportunities, reaching for its future with confidence, sustained by faith, fair play, and a conviction that good and courageous people will flourish when they’re free—­these are the secrets of a strong and prosperous America at peace with itself and the world.

A lasting and meaningful peace is our fourth great goal.  It is our highest aspiration.  And our record is clear:  Americans resort to force only when we must.  We have never been aggressors.  We have always struggled to defend freedom and democracy.

We have no territorial ambitions.  We occupy no countries.  We build no walls to lock people in.  Americans build the future.  And our vision of a better life for farmers, merchants, and working people, from the Americas to Asia, begins with a simple premise:  The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Governments which rest upon the consent of the governed do not wage war on their neighbors.  Only when people are given a personal stake in deciding their own destiny, benefiting from their own risks, do they create societies that are prosperous, progressive, and free.  Tonight, it is democracies that offer hope by feeding the hungry, prolonging life, and eliminating drudgery.

When it comes to keeping America strong, free, and at peace, there should be no Republicans or Democrats, just patriotic Americans.  We can decide the tough issues not by who is right, but by what is right.

Together, we can continue to advance our agenda for peace.  We can establish a more stable basis for peaceful relations with the Soviet Union; strengthen allied relations across the board; achieve real and equitable reductions in the levels of nuclear arms; reinforce our peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, Central America, and southern Africa; or assist developing countries, particularly our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere; and assist in the development of democratic institutions throughout the world.

The wisdom of our bipartisan cooperation was seen in the work of the Scowcroft commission, which strengthened our ability to deter war and protect peace.  In that same spirit, I urge you to move forward with the Henry Jackson plan to implement the recommendations of the Bipartisan Commission on Central America.