
It ought to be like clean water and clean air; it ought to be a part of the fabric of our life.
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It ought to be like clean water and clean air; it ought to be a part of the fabric of our life.

It may not be as much of a speech as a talk.

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew last year was a sober reminder that we need to provide strong, organized, and effective help to American families whose lives are dramatically affected by disaster.

I've started putting the elements of it together.

Janet Reno is ready to tackle the Justice Department's problems.

Government has an obligation to provide the proper environment in which business can prosper, but the private sector drives the economy.

I think sometimes you do, but that's what you're hired to do.

Fifty percent of the projected growth in this debt between now and the year 2000 is in health care costs.

I think I should follow the latter course.

We risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years as Americans.

The broad outlines of this plan are no secret, but I'd like to restate them.

We have to replace this social contract that somehow crept into our thinking in the 1980's, that somehow we had to have greater inequality in this country to get prosperity.

I want to reduce this deficit, not as an end in itself but because I think it is a critical part of a strategy to build jobs and growth for America today and over the long run.

Americans are at their best answering alarm bells in the night.