We need to do it in a way that reflects our core values: opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their own lives.

Our economy is the strongest in the world, and it's growing.

It gives you more jobs, more new businesses, more homeowners, a stronger future for all Americans.

For all their loose talk, the congressional leaders know that a default would have a severe impact on our country.

This is a time of genuine promise for our country.

No nation on Earth is better positioned for the new century than America.

I will not let anyone hold health care, education, or the environment hostage.

A country where Medicare withers on the vine, where our children are denied educational opportunity, where pollution worsens, where working people get a tax increase, that's not the kind of America I want for the 21st century.

I'm not about to give in to that kind of blackmail.

I believe they will vote for a balanced budget if it's the right kind of one.

So I will have no alternative but to veto it.

I mean, the Congress gets to propose, but the President has to sign or veto.

Despite these concerns the overall bill is acceptable because of the very positive provisions I have already mentioned and because of the benefits its programs provide to farm families and rural communities.

We can't tolerate that.

The growth figures clearly show that the economy of the United States is moving, that we're on the right track.

I'm going to veto it anyway.

The White House announced that the President will attend the dedication of a memorial cairn commemorating the victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan American Airlines Flight 103 at Arlington Cemetery on November 3.

I am pleased that H.R. 1976 provides the resources necessary to keep the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children on the Administration's path to full funding.