Tax cuts that size quite simply are bad economic policy.

The African growth and opportunity act promises a new partnership with Africa based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility.

I just think it ought to be affordable, and I think it ought to be targeted to the people that need it most.

I hereby delegate to you the power to conclude an agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation regarding restrictions on the importation of certain steel products.

We believe if we give... the same tax credits and loan guarantees to Americans to invest in America's new markets... that our people will do very well.

I'm basically asking the Congress to give investors like those on this stage with me today the same incentives to invest in south Phoenix that we give them right now to invest in the developing countries of Latin America and Africa and the Caribbean.

I believe that my course of action is better for the American economy than that latter course of action.

Today's historic action by the Federal Reserve Board will ensure that more Americans have access to capital.

This action is an important step to expand access to capital for all Americans.

If we can't get private investment to prove free enterprise will work for all Americans who will work, we'll never get around to doing that.

I do proclaim that: in order to provide for an accelerated schedule of duty elimination for specific goods, the tariff treatment set forth in the HTS for certain NAFTA originating goods is modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation.

Fiscal responsibility gave us our strong economy.

No farmer should go broke because of an act of God.

We reversed 12 years of trickle-down economics in which the deficit of this country exploded year after year and our national debt was quadrupled.

It continues the successful economic policy that we adopted beginning with the budget in 1993.

I think invest-and-grow is better than trickle-down.

We've raised the minimum wage and increased the earned-income tax credit so that Americans who work full time will be able to raise their children out of poverty.

Transcript of a press briefing by National Economic Adviser Gene Sperling and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Janet Yellen on the 1996 income and poverty statistics