It is a moral imperative, a constitutional mandate, and a legal necessity.

Affirmative action is simply a tool in the pursuit of that enduring national interest, equal opportunity.

We need to mend but not to end affirmative action.

We cannot grow the American economy in the 21st century if we continue to have pockets of abject poverty where people are dying to go to work.

I know it works.

I want our children's generation to inherit an America with as much new opportunity as the one into which I was brought into.

Affirmative action has been good for America.

A good education has always been key to unlocking the promise of tomorrow.

The job of ending discrimination in this country is not over.

Discrimination is not just morally wrong, it hurts everybody.

When affirmative action is done right, it is flexible, it is fair, and it works.

I am resolved that that day will come.

Let me be clear about what affirmative action must not mean and what I won't allow it to be.

The actions and policies of the Government of the FRY (S/M), in its involvement in and support for groups attempting to seize and hold territory in the Republics of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina by force and violence, continue to pose…

I shall continue to exercise the powers at my disposal to apply economic sanctions against the FRY (S/M) and the Bosnian Serb forces, civil authorities, and entities, as long as these measures are appropriate.

The 1996 VA-HUD appropriations bill passed today by the House Appropriations Committee is unacceptable.

I will not stand by as the Republican majority tries to impose this extreme agenda on the Nation.

Mrs. Bush will be in the hearts of Americans forever.