We join with all those working for peace in expressing our outrage and condemning in the strongest possible manner this brutal act.

We can balance the budget while protecting our common ground.

This reduction would terminate efforts to increase the quality of the Nation's economic statistics and would degrade the quality of some existing economic indicators.

Peace requires courage.

I will not allow our people to be sacrificed for the sake of political ideology.

But they shall not be allowed to succeed.

Today is a good day for the United States.

It's clearer than ever that we need political reform.

We showed that the great debate now occurring in our country can and should be conducted with civility and a sense of common ground.

We have to do everything we can to show the American people that their Government works for them and not the special interests.

If we're going to restore a spirit of civility to American politics, a handshake has to mean in 1995 what it meant when I was growing up: We have to be as good as our word.

I think the people of this country want us to move forward with political reform.

A bipartisan commission could cut the knot that is strangling change.

The question for you is: How are we going to solve the problems and keep the opportunities?

In almost every major area of our country where the crime rate has been high, there has been a substantial drop in the crime rate.

It would be imprudent to restrict these safety efforts when airline operations are again on the rise.

I am quite optimistic.

We're going to change regardless.