Bill Clinton: “It is time to reach across party lines and do this.”

We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.

the era of big government is over

We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.'

And I think we are facing challenges today without precedent in our history.