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

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

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.

She has truly put people first.

I think I should follow the latter course.

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

It's a lawyer. How's that?

No one is above the law.

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

I strongly support the decision of those Secretaries who have concluded that they do not need an executive dining room for the conduct of their agencies' business and have closed and converted them to other uses.

Effective immediately, executive departments and agencies shall not create or sponsor a new advisory committee subject to FACA unless the committee is required by statute.

Look, if we lift the embargo, then what incentive does the government have to change?

When I came here as a candidate for President, I didn't know whether I could do very well.

We have to do two things at once that no Government in your country's history has ever done.

I'm going to keep trying to change, and I'm going to try to stay in touch with you this whole 4 years.