"I think sometimes you do, but that's what you're hired to do."
"Government has an obligation to provide the proper environment in which business can prosper, but the private sector drives the economy."
"No one is above the law."
"I think I should follow the latter course."
"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."
"The broad outlines of this plan are no secret, but I'd like to restate them."
"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."
"We risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years as Americans."
"It's a lawyer. How's that?"
"Americans are at their best answering alarm bells in the night."
"She has truly put people first."
"Fifty percent of the projected growth in this debt between now and the year 2000 is in health care costs."
"We can't have a job in a place where people can't walk to work safely."
"The important thing is not to balance the budget overnight but to put it on a steady and decided downward tack."
"I wish I knew how to have an immediate impact."
"I am not going to roll over and play dead."
"From now on agencies and departments will not be allowed to create new commissions without permission from OMB."
"I think the public will support the policy that he will outline today, yes."
