Bill Clinton actually said...

"My administration remains ready at any moment to sit down in good faith with Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work out a real welfare reform plan."

"This welfare bill includes deep cuts that are tough on children and at odds with my central goal of moving people from welfare to work."

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to improve the functioning of the National Partnership Council, it is hereby o..."

"I am determined to work with Congress to achieve real, bipartisan welfare reform."