It is now possible to grow an economy and improve the environment at the same time.

You are graduating into a strong economy, the strongest in our Nation's history.

Seniors and people with disabilities living on fixed incomes simply cannot continue to cope with these kinds of price increases.

I have accepted his recommendation that trade remedies not be imposed.

More than 21 million people with new jobs; longest economic expansion in history.

Seniors living on fixed incomes simply can't cope with these kinds of price increases forever.

Rising drug prices are eating away at financial independence.

I believe that Mike Forbes became a Democrat because of his convictions on education, the environment, the Patients' Bill of Rights, campaign finance reform, prescription drugs for seniors, continuing the economic path the country is on…

Since 1996, when I worked with Congress to raise the minimum wage by 90 cents over 2 years, the unemployment rate has fallen from 5.2 percent to 4.1 percent—near the lowest level in 30 years.

I am writing this letter to strongly encourage Congress to pass clean, straightforward legislation to raise the minimum wage by $1—from $5.15 to $6.15—in two equal steps.

We have lots and lots of urban neighborhoods and rural areas where unemployment is still in double digits.

If we don't do this now when we've got the strongest economy in our lifetime, when will we ever get around to it?

This is a good deal for American workers, for American farmers, for American business.

The new technologies that you use are also finding their ways into every sector of our economy, making companies of all kinds more competitive.

We know that we can improve the environment and the economy at the same time.

I believe that in this new economy, government's role is to give the American people the tools and the conditions they need to make their way and to advance our Nation's progress.

I think we ought to always opt for competition.

I feel confident that if we could get the deficit cut in half and then get rid of it, that we would lower the structure of interest rates.