Bill Clinton: “I'm optimistic that we'll pass it because more often than not in very difficult issues the Congress does the right…”

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

The American people don't pay you to have personal feelings. They pay you to deliver for them.

That ain't America. We've never done that.