Fred Slabach knows how important the Agriculture Department is to rural Americans.

I know he will represent their concerns fairly in Washington, with this administration and with Congress.

I believe very strongly that in order for us all to have the courage to make those changes, we need a higher level of personal security in this country.

I hope he doesn't decide to run for President anytime soon.

We need national legislation.

How do we change what's wrong, keep what's right, and how can we deal with the burden of our health care system?

This is a huge economic problem.

Contrary to some of the complaints about it, our plan will increase consumer choice, not decrease it.

I do hereby proclaim October 9, 1993, as Leif Erikson Day.

We went because only the United States could help stop one of the great human tragedies of this time.

Let us demonstrate to the world that when Americans take on a challenge, they do the job right.

The arts and humanities must remain a vital part of our lives as individuals and as a Nation.

The solution to Somalia's problems is not a military one, it is political.

We have to find that imagination and fire it in the children all over America.

Do we leave when the job gets tough, or when the job is well done?

I am delighted to be here to honor this year's winners of the National Medal of the Arts and the Charles Frankel Prize.

We saved close to one million lives.

Country music is one of America's unique musical forms.