I'm determined that if we'll do that, we can resolve our remaining differences and reach agreement to balance the budget and do a lot of other good things for the American people as well.

We must continue and strengthen and build upon.

Better. It feels better.

Terrorist groups continue to engage in activities with the purpose or effect of threatening the Middle East peace process, and which are hostile to U.S. interests in the region.

Government is the instrument by which we give each other the tools to make the most of our own lives.

We're in a period of change.

That is a part of your legacy, and you should be proud of it.

The emergency declared with respect to grave acts of violence committed by foreign terrorists that disrupt the Middle East peace process, is to continue in effect beyond January 23, 1997.

We believe there are substantial savings to be made in the Medicare program, and we're going to offer our ways of doing it.

I told everyone at all the balls yesterday that I felt better at the second Inauguration than the first because the country was better.

People know that as they become ever more multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious, that is a recipe for destruction.

Government is not the problem.

You should feel a great deal of pride in that.

We've got to get up today and do the work of the country.

I want to meet them halfway on this and on many other issues.

I am continuing the national emergency with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process.

America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation.

And tomorrow we will start to work on it.