Bill Clinton actually said...

"You have shown over the past year during the earthquake, the fires, and now the current floods that you are a people that come together in times of crisis."

"We think it's important that, with Japan's dynamic leadership, that a comprehensive blueprint be devised to carry out the vision that the leaders committed themselves to in Bogor."

"I have declared that a major disaster exists in California caused by the damaging floods in northern and southern California."

"We see this as a year of not only how far we've come since the end of World War II, but where we are in this rich partnership and the potential of looking forward."