A 15 percent Federal pay increase, built into the Government's cost base for all succeeding years, would be a dangerous step away from budget discipline.

We do not have to accept—

The negotiation of a bilateral free trade agreement between us will provide further impetus for the FTAA negotiations.

We can't turn this globalization off.

Charitable gifts now exceed 2 percent of our gross domestic product, the highest level of giving in nearly three decades.

One in three Washington, DC, children, the Capital of the country that has the strongest economy in the world, lives every single day at some risk of going to bed hungry.

The trade agreement the United States has signed with Vietnam will help even more investors come to your country.

I would say that they understand that the country is doing better, and they like that.

Trade lifts wages, raises standards, opens opportunities.

I said I would work hard to turn the country around, to create a situation where everybody who was willing to work and take responsibility has the opportunity to live the American dream.

By rewarding work and promoting responsibility, we've helped put the American family back on top again, with 22 million new jobs.

I'm very pleased that the Congress approved the permanent normal trading relations and that China's going into the World Trade Organization.

I think a fair reading of history is that the greatest Asian financial crisis was not the brief one now coming to a close but the one that lasted almost two centuries.

Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 4986, the 'FSC Repeal and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000.'

This revised Act must recognize the current realities of a fast-paced highly competitive global market.

Are we better off today than we were 8 years ago?

I brought arithmetic to Washington.

The decision before Congress is whether to go from an annual review of their trade relationships with us, to give them permanent normal trading status.