Government's going to do what ordinary citizens do, comparison shop for goods and services we buy and get the best value for every dollar.

This action will help us reach our objective: open markets that will create better jobs and increase wages at home and abroad.

I hope that it won't be passed because if it is passed, it runs the risk of endangering our economic recovery.

The agreement on world trade concluded at the end of last year is perhaps the most concrete recent example of what we are trying to do for future generations.

The nub of this is, you cannot solve this problem of cost-shifting and of inflation until you do one thing: find a way for everybody to have access to health care and to pay for it.

Education has propelled our economy, strengthened our democracy, and created our great American middle class.

The main good news for Americans is that Mr. Greenspan said that conditions for long-term growth are good; conditions for low inflation are good.

The Round will result in the largest, most comprehensive set of trade agreements in history.

It helps businesses to do well, it beefs up our competitiveness around the world, and it helps to create jobs and to stabilize and increase incomes for our working people.

I felt if we stuck by it, if we just kept arguing that a wealthy country can only create jobs and raise incomes by increasing the number of its customers for goods and services, in the end we would prevail.

The idea of quality took hold as American companies become more and more aware of the intense and growing competition from overseas.

We are clearly better off with the economic plan.

Let us realize the deficit is too big and the debt is much too large as a percentage of our gross national product.

The deficit increased so dramatically over the last 12 years because of things that happened on the spending side and on the revenue side.

It is important that the debt, as a percentage of our annual income, go down.

We are now the envy of the other advanced industrial countries.

We need some more investment to do that.

This agreement represents good news for the coal industry, good news for its workers, and more good news for the economy as we approach the holiday season.