"It's your country, and I'm doing my best to give it back to you."
"I assured the representatives here that we had no desire other than to find the 15 best people in America immediately to work on this issue."
"We have to increase investment in our people and our future and reduce our debt at the same time."
"We're going to cut $9 billion out of the administrative costs of the Federal Government."
"I intend to follow through on my pledge to make college loans available to all Americans based on their ability to repay when they take a job."
"Unless California is revived, the Nation cannot recover economically."
"If we do not change, then the good things that are happening today will not translate into jobs and opportunity for America."
"I have embraced as my cause the idea that every person in this country ought to be able to live up to the fullest of their God-given potential."
"First of all, we're already paying a lot of money on health care."
"I think that there will be a woman elected President in the not too distant future."
"$1 invested today will save $3 in avoidable health and education problems for these children in the future."
"$1 invested today saves $10 in the future in preventable childhood diseases."
"Welfare recipients will be trained for work, not welfare."
"I sent Congress my economic plan to create new jobs and to lift the living standards of Americans and their children."
"I think we can do a better job to preserve the diversity of the forests, the old forests up there, because most of it's already gone."
"It's time to put politics aside and put America first."
"Our families have struggled without the help they need."
"I do propose to raise income tax rates, but only for the top 1.2 percent of taxpayers."