I think we all owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the Vice President for the difficult and thorough work which has been done.

The goal is to get as much through as quickly as possible.

This is a different historical moment.

We believe that a significant number of those people can be eliminated or used to serve customers better.

We have got to make sure that we have policies in this Government that reward work and family for hard-working middle class people.

We've got to reunite America.

I'm glad to be here today, and I thank you for spending a little time with your President on Labor Day.

We will not tax you into poverty; we will use the tax system to lift you out of poverty even if it requires a refund.

Bobby Simpson has dedicated his life to helping people with disabilities, and I am grateful that he has agreed to lend his commitment and experience to our administration.

I am pleased that these eight men and women have agreed to join our team and certain they will each work hard to support the great work being done by Secretaries Espy and Pena to make their Departments work better for the American people.

This agreement, especially coupled with the side agreements, means more jobs, not fewer jobs, for the American people.

I like them very much.

I have never wanted to have any big, broad-based taxes to pay for health care.

If we don't change, we'll be up to 19 percent by the end of the decade without covering everybody and with no improvements in the present problem.

I think all of you know that the United States or American firms have a number of very large oil and gas deals that are in various stages of development being considered now by the Russian government.

We are going to work together on matters of energy and environmental protection.

I believe that this will be a job generator if we implement it sensibly and gradually and over time we slow the rate of growth of health care costs.

I think senior citizens will come out way ahead.