I believe it is the responsibility of our generation to work together to preserve the American dream for all Americans.

We have shrunk the Federal Government.

I want to talk to you today about the importance of this community college and education in general.

That is education, education, education.

Our job, yours and mine together, is to redefine the partnership to empower our people through education and through training to face the demands of this age.

We should create more opportunity; we should insist on more responsibility from all of us; and we should work to build our communities at the grassroots level.

The nation should be proud of our rapid response.

I have asked Congress for $30 million for this regional project.

This bill is the next step in my Administration's continuing effort to raise living standards for working families and help restore the American Dream for all our people.

It can be, as was written in Ecclesiastes, a time for peace.

Learning must become a way of life.

I have made UN peacekeeping reform a key goal.

I have done my duty.

H.R. 872 would leave the United States with the unacceptable choice between acting alone or doing nothing when emergencies arise.

If the Congress does not act now, the minimum wage will fall to its lowest real level in 40 years.

It will let middle-income families share in our economic prosperity today and help them build our economic prosperity tomorrow.

These responsibilities have defined our economic strategy.

We've done all of that to help our people get the skills they need.