Bill Clinton: “I will continue to fight the Republican leadership in Congress to make sure this important work gets done this year.”

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.

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

I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it.

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