It is a wonderful thing if I am but one day and one night in the world, provided that my fame and deeds live after me.

Are we going to find more markets so we can secure the jobs we've got?

I would never knowingly do anything that would cost Americans jobs.

I think they are making a grave mistake.

This plan is real; it is specific; it is concrete.

None under our plan will lose benefits from what they have now.

We cannot let the fact that we know we have great problems blind us to our promise.

We cannot let the legitimate grievances, the honest fears, the well-founded anxieties of people who are not doing very well in this economy stop them from doing better tomorrow.

We are beginning now the process that will lead to a vote sometime next year on the health care plan.

Shouldn't we reelect a Mayor who's actually got a theory about how to use these public health clinics to keep people well?

My heart goes out to the people across southern California who have lost their homes.

NAFTA has become sort of the catch-all for the accumulated resentments of the past, the anxieties about the future, and the frustrations of the present.

It's pleasing to me to see that a deficit came in lower than it was projected.

We are beginning to see real progress.

Yes, we must change America.

How can America do well if New York City or New York State don't do well?

I need your help to pass a comprehensive health care bill that gives health care security to all the people who live in Queens.

It ought to be done.