This is simply the wrong time.

We have got to decide what it is we are going to do.

It is my determination that a delay will cause serious, irreversible, and avoidable harm.

I think that—I think at least for the time being that it's not for me to be the one who's suggesting what should be done.

America nearly always gives the right answer.

Do whatever he wants to do.

Those aren't decisions, believe it or not, that I'm personally reviewing here every day.

I thought that was the right thing to do, certainly the right thing for children.

I urge them to finish their work as quickly as possible.

I strongly believe that is the path to follow.

One of the biggest problems we have in our country...is dealing with the tension every human being has between thinking about what's happening right this second and what's right to do over the long run.

We must not turn away from that path now.

I think that she should do that.

I want to go when the Secretary of Defense and General Shalikashvili tell me it's an appropriate thing to do.

I cannot permit it to happen.

This is short-sighted and unwise.

Every time a decision is called upon to be made in this Nation's Capital or in your community, ask yourself what's it going to look like in 20 years?

That is not the question. The question is, how shall we do it?