"My concern here is to do it in a way that is most appropriate for the management of the whole national security and military interests of the country."
"I want a secretary of state who understands that we have obligations of continuity and obligations of change."
"I'm going to do better if we have the courage to change."
"I disagree with Mr. Perot that the answer is to put a 50-cent gas tax on the middle class and raise more taxes on the middle class and the working poor than on the wealthy."
"I think we can bring it down by 50 percent in 4 years and grow the economy."
"We need more police on the street."
"I favor strict controls on how much you can spend running for Congress."
"Mr. Bush, for 12 years you've had it your way. You've had your chance, and it didn't work."
"I believe experience counts, but it's not everything."
"I want to bring that change to the American people, but we must all decide first we have the courage to change for hope and a better tomorrow."
"Our country has fallen so far so fast that just a few months ago the Japanese prime minister actually said he felt sympathy for the United States."
"The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs."
"But this is America. There is no them. There is only us."
"In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again—old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community."
"I am well aware that all those millions of people who rallied to Ross Perot's cause wanted to be in an army of patriots for change. Tonight I say to them, join us, and together we will revitalize Amer..."
"That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement."
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
"We're moving ahead."