[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 5 (Tuesday, February 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            AN ORDINARY HERO

  (Mr. GUTKNECHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTKNECHT. Mr. Speaker, Ronald Reagan said, we all have the right 
to dream heroic dreams. Those who say we are in a time when there are 
no heroes just do not now where to look. We can see heroes every day 
going in and out of factory gates. Others, a handful of them, produce 
enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. We meet heroes 
across the counter and they are on both sides of that counter. They are 
entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in a new idea who 
create jobs, new wealth, new opportunity. They are individuals and 
families whose taxes support the government and whose voluntary gifts 
support church, charity, art and education. Their patriotism is quiet, 
but deep. Their values sustain our national life.
  Mr. Speaker, Ronald Reagan believed in us, in our capacity to perform 
great deeds. He was the American President in the American century. It 
is altogether fitting that we rename our National Airport after him.

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