Bill Clinton: “It is ironic that at a time when we celebrate the triumph of the human genome...here we are bedeviled by the oldest…”

I am deeply grateful for his dedication to our beloved home state of Arkansas, and proud to stand alongside him in accepting this gift.

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

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

I hope that people will still believe in our democratic system enough to stick with it and keep pushing to make it work.