The American people wanted some fundamental change in the way our Government does the people's business.

One is to stand up against and stop the practice of ethnic cleansing.

I heard worry in some of those voices and hope everywhere that new leadership could change our country for the better.

That's going to put billions and billions of dollars back into this economy.

I'm still listening to you.

To learn about democracy you can take a break from Plato and take the bus.

We're not going to play business as usual here.

The bill I proposed didn't create Democratic jobs or Republican jobs.

I think that's letting the American people down.

That's the social program we really need.

This critical assistance will help the unemployed and their families with grocery bills, mortgage payments and other expenses while they seek new employment.

It is my hope that the Congress will consider further legislation to produce the jobs that are needed to strengthen and sustain the current economic recovery.

My deepest sympathies go out to all his loved ones.

I share the sadness his family, friends, followers, and supporters all feel upon his passing away.

The movement toward political and economic reform in Russia and the other new states of the former Soviet Union is the greatest security challenge of our day.

It is time to put our relations with Russia and the other states on a new footing.

I am disappointed that the job-producing elements of the original version of the legislation were forced to be removed from it.

We can be proud of his enormous accomplishments and the dignity and comfort he brought to the lives of so many of our country's least powerful and most dispossessed workers.