It demonstrates that, with strong leadership and a cooperative spirit, environmental laws can be properly and productively enforced.

Jesus' birth demonstrates the infinite love of God.

Russia is deliberating now on whether or not to sign the implementing documents that would create a work plan for them in Partnership for Peace.

The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission itself is the expression of that.

We're not expecting that they will. The kinds of issues that we engage in in the commission are clearly in the mutual interest of both countries.

We have a very strong relationship with Russia.

It is fitting that this achievement be recognized by award of the Nobel Peace Prize and that the presentation take place in Norway.

The agenda we have embraced is ambitious and worthy.

I think that we can show discipline in welfare reform and discipline in a lot of these other programs and still not be anti-poor.

This Summit of the Americas we just concluded represents a watershed in the history of our hemisphere.

I want to begin by saying a special thank you, because this agreement and the good faith that has been followed in adhering to it has been good for the working families of the United States.

I want to build on that.

We have seen a substantial increase in trade and an increase in jobs, good-paying jobs, for the American people.

The road ahead will be full of challenges and difficulties.

On behalf of the American people I wish to extend congratulations to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Chairman Yasser Arafat, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on being selected as the Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994.

We are bound together by geography, by history, by culture, but most important, now by shared values: a ferocious devotion to freedom, democracy, social justice.

We have a lot of support from other countries to bring democracy to Cuba, but no agreement on what the policy should be.

I think we have to keep doing it.