Pete du Pont Speeches

Six weeks ago I was among the two dozen Republican governors who gathered in Philadelphia to celebrate our Party's victory in the November elections and to see what that victory would mean to the states ...

Back in 1978, a top official of the U.S. energy department took exception to the oft-voiced complaint that the United States has no coherent energy policy. On the contrary, he replied, the country did, in fact, have such a policy. It was a policy which encouraged consumption and discouraged production ...

While the nation has successively debated the economic policies of Presidents Ford, Carter, and now Reagan, a quiet yet dramatic change has taken place in the nation's economy. The past failings of federal economic policies have brought about a fundamental change in the nature of American federalism as the states and local governments have grown more assertive in protecting their own economic welfare...

Back in 1978, a top official of the U.S. energy department took exception to the oft-voiced complaint that the United States has no coherent energy policy. On the contrary, he replied, the country did, in fact, have such a policy. It was a policy which encouraged consumption and discouraged production ...

We in the United States have been through troubled times during the past two decades. If the decade of the sixties brought forth a crisis of our social and foreign policies, the decade of the seventies was, in a very real sense, a crisis of our economic policies. The results of the so-called American economic malaise through the 1970's are well known and documented...

Mr. Speaker, Lt. Governor Castle, Mr. President Pro Tempore, members of the 131st General Assembly, Members of the Judiciary, honored guests, and ladies and gentlemen.

This afternoon, for the fifth consecutive year I have the distinct pleasure and privilege of reporting to you on the state of our State and presenting to you my recommendations for the State Budget for the coming fiscal year ...