 29 cities since 1st of January. The first thing I want to do is thank everybody on the White House staff and in the various departments that have been so supportive of all the campaign activities. It's been unbelievable. Some of the activities right here in the White House and then support for all of us that we're traveling around this country. I've been involved in a lot of campaigns and I've never seen better teamwork or more support or better research. And of course, in as much as we're talking politics here, why I want to single out people, but certainly Mitch Daniels has done an outstanding job at 9-11. And if it doesn't prove to be for real, or the president will do what he has to do in defending that are up two years from now, and you don't want to forget that one, I think we should approach the Senate the same look. We wish we were in control, but we're going to give it a try. We're going to work with you. We're not going to change our agenda. We're going to have to, I think, out of some of these very strong and charismatic new governors we have and the strength we have in governor numbers, that will be helpful to us. And yes, he is going to divert him for fulfilling his commitment to the American people. But commitment was stamped and affirmed by the president of the United States. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Based on my previous experience, I ought to quit right now. But and I thank you, George and Don and Mitch and Haley. With the Mets coming in next week, the White House, I sort of thought it would be a good idea if we got our own championship teamed together. As I look out upon all of you, I sort of thought it would be a good idea. Not only that, but you've served such long hours and with such unstinting devotion, you who have, through your own dedication and sacrifice, made it possible for us to change our nation's history. I can't help but thinking they're amazing. And you are amazing. So the first order of business for me is to simply this, my friends, and we've been through enough together for a real sense of friendship to develop, haven't we? My friends, I thank you. Now before turning to the works of the next two years, I'll word about the results of yesterday's election. First, my congratulations to all those who won governors, senators, and representatives, Republicans, and Democrats, and my condolences to those who lost. Overall, yesterday's election brought fairly good news, though we lost the Senate. We realized many gains in other areas. We won unprecedented victories in governorships, gaining eight, resulted in Republican governors serving more than half the population of the United States. And additionally, against overwhelming historical odds, we kept our base in the House of Representatives virtually intact. The rest of the story is we came short on keeping our Republican majority in the Senate. We did so because we lost six cliff hangers in which our candidates each received 49% or more of the vote. Now this is not the outcome we sought, but our agenda remains unchanged, and I look forward to its attainment. We traveled 25,000 miles. We worked with candidates, took our message to the people, and demonstrated our commitment to the major issues. I think it's worth noting that even in this hotly contested race, we enjoyed widespread support on the issues that we campaigned on, our economic policies of low taxes and spending, judicial nominees who were firm with criminal wrongdoers, and a strong defense, especially SDI. So in a sense, our message, that same message of limited government, and a firm foreign policy that we enunciated from our first day of office, did get across and continues to get across. So I want to take a moment to personally thank the many, many people who made this effort possible. In addition to all those in this room who have done so much, I want to extend to all the candidates, to all the volunteers and staffs of the party and candidates my heartfelt thanks. As I say, the political spectrum continues to move in our way. All our candidates, their staffs and volunteers can feel heartened by this. To all those on Capitol Hill, I look forward to Congress' return. By then, the election will be behind us, and hard work and bipartisan cooperation will be ahead. You have my pledge to seek solutions where problems exist and progress where barriers may arise. In a word, the challenge now before us is simply this, to complete the revolution that we have so well begun. Three aims must be met. We must make America more prosperous, more productive, and the world more peaceful. My first aim, a more prosperous America, involves a redoubling of our efforts to get big government off the backs and out of the pockets of the people themselves. A spending restraint that we've pushed for so unceasingly ever since 1980 must finally be achieved, and that means permanent structural reform of the entire budget process. This town was kind of shaken up to discover that we were serious about the line item veto and the balanced budget amendment during our first six years. But we've seen to it that the line item veto and the balanced budget amendment have received serious consideration in the Congress, and serious opinion has already begun to shift in favor of both these reforms. Even so, you can take it from me. Washington ain't seen nothing yet. We can achieve these two reforms, so let's go after them. As budget reform enables government to become more productive, we'll need to foster still greater productivity in the private sector if America is to go on competing in the global marketplace. We'll do all we can to keep regulation down and capital formation up so that high technology can flourish and make American agriculture and traditionally or traditional industry more innovative and competitive. Now we have our new corporate and individual tax rates. No less a figure than Prime Minister Thatcher of the United Kingdom has commented that at 28%, the top American individual tax rate will be lower than the lowest British individual rate. We intend to protect those low rates, to recognize them for what they are, the greatest spur possible to entrepreneurial growth. At the same time, we'll keep in mind that 50% of our gross national product is accounted for by services. So we'll be looking at ways to achieve greater productivity in services of all kinds, from financial services to transportation to government to healthcare. And if I could interject something here, with inflation under control, I just have to believe, and I'm sure you agree, that the time has come to get the cost of healthcare under control. And something else, nothing represents a heavier drag in our productivity than drugs and crime. Drug abuse destroys families. It keeps young people from getting the education they need and means that tens of thousands of adults are often absent from the workplace or demoralized and sick at heart. The loss to the economy can be measured in the billions of dollars, but there's no way to measure the loss to the country of all those ruined lives. Crime likewise exacts a toll from us, a toll of lost and destroyed property, high insurance rates and mounting burdens on police and other law enforcement officials. But perhaps the heaviest toll is the toll of violence, personal injury, and fear. So let's carry out our pledge to the people. Let's win our crusades against drugs and crime because a productive America is an America that's kicked the habit and put criminals behind bars where they belong. I have to just tell you a little experience out there in the road in virtually every big rally that we held in the last days of this campaign. They said, little something encouraging. You know, not too long ago, Nancy was speaking to a school class in Oakland, California, and a girl asked a question. She said, well, what do we do when someone offers us drugs? And Nancy said, just say no. Well, out in the road, because there were hundreds and hundreds of young people at every one of these rallies, very much present. And I would always try to recognize their presence there. And then I told them that I had a message from my roommate to deliver to them, that she wanted to deliver to them. And I would tell them that for their own sake, for the country's sake, for their family's sake, for their future, with regard to drugs, just say no. And in this limited time, these young people in every rally would come to their feet, and in many instances would say the no before I got to it, and then would chant, just say no, just say no. It was very heartwarming. And I found out that since that answer to a question in Oakland, there are more than 10,000 just say no clubs among our young people across the country. But our third aim is as straightforward as a phrase I used again and again during the campaign, peace through strength. And you know after using these words before audiences across the country, I just can't help thinking that for this administration, peace through strength is more than a policy. It's a promise, a promise we've made to the people and a promise we intend to keep. Hope alone can never lead to agreement with the Soviets. We must maintain our military preparedness and push forward with new technologies. And yes, that means SDI. So the bridge to real arms reduction and a just peace rests on two girders, military preparedness and the pursuit of advanced technologies like SDI. But in brief then, this is our agenda. Now of course there are those who say it cannot be done. You'll remember they first said that back at the beginning of the second term. And that was before we'd enacted all aid for the freedom fighters in Nicaragua, achieved progress to our genuine arms reductions at Reykjavik and passed the most sweeping, far reaching reform of the tax code in history. There's one nice thing about it, you know, when you haven't been around the town too much and then you come here, you discover that some of the things you can't do can be done. Well the truth is the voters reelected us in 1984 to keep the revolution alive. Not just for two years, but for four. And believe me, if you'd been out of the campaign trail with me hearing all those chants of four more years, you'd know just how much the country is with us. I told them that I assumed that they were suggesting I live four more years and I was in favor of that. There's much more work to be done, state of the union, budget preparation and arms negotiations. There are those who will continue to harp upon the obstacles, who dwell upon what they consider the certainty of failure. The only real certainty is that if we do nothing, nothing will be achieved. To those who say it cannot be done, I'll only say this in reply. The only thing that cannot be done is to allow the stirring challenges that face us to go unanswered. For two years more, my friends, let us make history together. Thank you for all you've done. God bless you. Thank you all for coming back to the job. Two more years. See you later.