This is a day where all Americans put aside their business and their political preconceptions and just celebrate the freedom of our country.

Now again you are pioneers as you make the great transition into a new economy and a new century.

This will become a national priority.

If you want it, you can get it.

I wanted to see a vision I had of our country in the 21st century fulfilled.

We will shortly learn the choice of the Russian people.

No student should be so afraid that they cannot learn.

We now have the evidence.

The street is not an acceptable alternative to the classroom.

We've been working on that for 3 1/2 years.

It is wrong.

I wanted our Nation to go into the next century with the American dream genuinely alive for every American without regard to race or gender or religion or region or the station that he or she starts out in life.

We are being given an historic responsibility now, you and I, to pick which bridge we're going to walk into the 21st century.

Today was a triumph for democracy in Russia.

There is plenty to do, folks.

The American people will do what they've been doing for over 200 years; they will make the right decision.

I wanted to restore the sense of community in America.

I applaud the Congress' swift, unanimous, and bipartisan passage of this bill.