08/02/1998
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Our economy is the strongest in the world, and it's growing."
"I'm not about to give in to that kind of blackmail."
"A country where Medicare withers on the vine, where our children are denied educational opportunity, where pollution worsens, where working people get a tax increase, that's not the kind of America I ..."
"I will not let anyone hold health care, education, or the environment hostage."