Bill Clinton

I believe we should give people the opportunity to move from dependence to independence.

Our job in the end is not to tear anybody down and not to use this issue to divide America, but to build people up.

We will remember Jim Grant most for his tireless advocacy on behalf of the world's children and for pioneering low-cost, simple techniques for alleviating disease, poverty, and suffering among the neediest of children.

I have worked on this issue since 1980.

It was with deep sadness and regret that Hillary and I learned today of the death of Jim Grant, executive director of UNICEF.

I know that most people who are trapped in welfare will gladly take the work options if we can work out the system in the proper way.

I'm committed to making welfare what it was meant to be, a second chance, not a way of life.

All of us have made our mistakes, and none of us can change our yesterdays.

People on welfare who can work should go to work.

The New Covenant is grounded in an old idea that all Americans have not just a right but a responsibility to do the hard work needed to rise as far as their talents and determination can take them and to give something back to their…

Today we have lost a personal friend, an American hero and champion of children throughout the world.

My mission as President is to restore the American dream to all of our people.

We can't have one without the other, and we can't have a strong community without both.

UNICEF retains its special place in the hearts of all Americans.

I want the Republicans to decide who I'm going to run against, and I'll abide their judgment and gladly receive them. And I'm for the team from California. Mr. Brokaw. Now, Mr. President, there's a northern California and a southern…

I'm certainly trying. You know, I have named Mr. Usery the mediator, and I talked to him this morning. I asked him to get the parties back together in the strike and to give me a report by February 6th, and if he couldn't get them to…

I think he's a very interesting fellow. I think he's got a lot of good ideas. I think he's open to looking at things in new and different ways. Mr. Brokaw. Do you think he plays fair?

That's right. It will be by the year 2019 or something. And we will have to have, at some point in the future, another effort like we had in 1983 to take a hard look at it and deal with it. And we have to preserve the integrity of the…

I think it's important to raise the minimum wage because if we don't, next year the buying power of the minimum wage will be at a 40 year low.

We cannot permit a cruel hoax to then be written into the law saying, well, you can get this block grant for police and prevention but only after the prison money is spent.

Congressional Accountability Act of 1995

We must work together to support Mexico's economic progress.

I have sought to essentially focus on three things that I think are critical to making sure we succeed in this new economy: empowering our people to make the most of their own lives, expanding opportunity but shrinking the Federal…

I applaud you for these outstanding contributions and look forward to your continuing advice and assistance.

We should not repeal the assault weapons ban.