It is especially important for Asia and for our economy that the new Japanese Government move forward quickly and effectively.

It makes sure that job training helps Americans meet the demand of a rapidly changing economy.

I urge Congress to do this quickly and not to put at risk our prosperity.

This bill will modernize job training to fit the needs of today's economy.

Fiscal discipline helped to build this strong economy; fiscal recklessness could undermine it dramatically.

America is going to have a balanced budget and a surplus.

Just because America's doing well, just because North Carolina's doing well, we have to think about the long-term challenges.

Times are good now, and I'm grateful for that.

We have to prove that America can work for all Americans who are willing to work.

Today Social Security is sound.

Today, 44 million Americans depend on Social Security.

Anything we do to strengthen Social Security now must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline.

Social Security must provide a benefit people can count on.

Our economy is the strongest it's been in a generation.

Fiscal responsibility gave us our strong economy.

We must maintain our hard-won fiscal discipline in anything that we do.

Social Security has been far more than an ID number on a tax form.

You should all feel some sense of personal responsibility for the buoyant economy, for the lessening social problems of our country, for the role that the United States has been able to play in advancing the cause of peace and freedom and…