It is the area, where do the people live? What is their per capita income? What is the unemployment rate?

Even though our country is now blessed by the longest economic expansion in peacetime in our history, not all Americans have been blessed by it.

I have established increased rates of duty for imports above the tariff-rate quota levels.

And, homeownership, homeownership, homeownership.

This is not about charity; this is about how to make money by helping people who are willing to work for themselves get the chance to do it.

Government's role is to create the conditions for success.

I want everybody in America to know that while our country has been blessed with this economic recovery, not all Americans have been blessed by it.

All Americans benefit when all Americans work.

We can have a tax cut, but if I announced... here's a sizable tax cut.

If we, with the most prosperous economy in our lifetimes, cannot make a commitment to take every person along with us into the 21st century, we will have failed to meet a moral obligation.

Keeping the economy strong by paying the debt off and saving Medicare and Social Security, I think, are the most important things we can do.

The cut in funding for debt reduction programs would preclude our leadership in reducing debt of the poorest countries.

Fiscal discipline does bring real results.

Our surplus will be $20 billion more than we thought this year.

In fact, the budget surplus for 1999 will be $99 billion, the largest as a share of our economy since 1951.

It means the next time there is an international financial crisis, we will be relatively less vulnerable.

By balancing the budget we have begun to reduce the debt.

The surplus is the hard-earned product of our fiscal discipline.