Bill Clinton

I thank the Members of Congress especially for being here.

I'm glad I named Mr. Usery.

I ran for this office with a vision that at the end of this century we need to be preserving the American dream for all of our people.

The country is proud of your service.

The Federal Government's job is to increase the ability of people to make the most of their own lives and to enhance security.

I'm pretty proud of what Mr. Woolsey did and what the CIA has done.

We should stay right with it until we have 100,000.

I thank him and his wife for that decision.

This arrest is a major step forward in the fight against terrorism.

It's up to every citizen in every community in America to take responsibility to join the fight.

Most Americans never know the victories our intelligence provides or the crises it helps us to avoid.

I believe he should be confirmed, and I believe he will.

We should listen to the experts in law enforcement and do what is right and keep this above politics.

I will oppose any attempt to undermine the capacity of the crime bill to produce the 100,000 police officers that we promised the American people.

He's a proven innovator, open to new ways of doing business and skeptical of conventional wisdom.

General Carns will face a challenge whose difficulty is matched only by its importance.

Terrorism will not pay.

I just don't know. I don't know. I don't have a recent enough update to know that. But they're working, at least, and talking, and that's hopeful.

We're working--I just keep telling them to play ball. It's time to go. You know, it's just a few hundred folks trying to figure out how to divide nearly $2 billion. They ought to be able to figure that out in time for the rest of America…

Oh, we're going to have hearings, and he's going to go forward. If the facts are no different than I understand them to be, I don't understand why he would even be in trouble.

Well, come home to us. We're proud of you. Goodbye. Commander Wetherbee. Yes, sir. Thank you very much. [At this point, the teleconference ended, and the President took questions from reporters.]

You're welcome. And of course we want to say hello to Michael and Janice, too, with whom we haven't talked. We're proud of all of you. Have a wonderful time, and come home safe and sound. Give a speech. We're all---- Astronaut Janice Voss…

No, you won't be the last. We'll have a lot more if we have you as an example. I'd also like to say something to our Russian partner in space, Vladimir Titov, who is one of the world's most experienced space travelers, and he's the first…

Well, you certainly proved that. Look at that. We enjoy watching the microphone there. [Laughter] I want to ask Dr. Harris to pick it up as it flies toward him. I want to--he's going to set another milestone by becoming the first…

Well, we're confident that it will. As you know, this whole mission is a number of firsts. You're the first person to ever command our efforts to rendezvous with a Russian space vehicle, and I know that Eileen Collins is the first woman…