That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement.

A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

I am well aware that all those millions of people who rallied to Ross Perot's cause wanted to be in an army of patriots for change. Tonight I say to them, join us, and together we will revitalize America.

In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again—old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community.

But this is America. There is no them. There is only us.

The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs.

Our country has fallen so far so fast that just a few months ago the Japanese prime minister actually said he felt sympathy for the United States.

When we pull together, America will pull ahead.

The choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. In many ways, it is not even Republican or Democratic. It is different. It is new. And it will work.

There is no them. There is only us.

We're moving ahead.

prevent American tax dollars from being used to help foreign countries who are trying to take our export markets.