Bill Clinton

Many of you have recorded declines in the crime rate in the last year or so because of the strategies that mayors are adopting with community policing.

We know that the combined rates of unemployment and inflation are the lowest they have been in 30 years.

Let's work to empower people.

I am certain that you would have served your country with great distinction and honor in that important post.

We cannot let that happen.

I ask you to fight to keep the reforms that we've put in place and the programs that you've relied on over the years.

It is time to put behind us the rancor and cynicism that are shadowing the American ideal of baseball.

We do not want to see overall cuts in education programs.

We know we must continue to invest in our own people, to empower individuals to take advantage of the opportunities of the global economy.

There is an education premium in this new economy that is greater than has ever been the case in the entire history of the Republic, ever.

I think that would be a terrible mistake because it— it again, it does all the things that I think we should be doing.

America has been living without baseball for far too long.

The middle class bill of rights does something we should have done a long time ago: It gives a deduction for the cost of education after high school.

This is not just true for economic affairs but also for a whole range of other problems.

It's time to 'play ball.'

I remain convinced that the best way to get baseball back for America is for the parties to reach their own settlement.

The job of every American at the close of the 20th century is to do what we can to guarantee that, as we move to the next century, the American dream will be available to all of our people.

It has always been my belief—and it continues to be—that the baseball strike, like any labor dispute, should be settled through good faith bargaining between the parties.

I believe more strongly now that the incomes and living standards of Americans are tied directly to what happens outside our borders.

Failure to act could have grave consequences for Mexico, for Latin America, for the entire developing world.

It is time for this strike to end.

Today, our job again is to persuade people that democracy and free markets can give all people the opportunity to live out their dreams.

You can't give somebody an education, you can only give them the opportunity for an education.

Let us put aside partisanship and pettiness and pride. As we embark on this new course, let us put our country first.

We should rely on government as a partner to help us to do more for ourselves and for each other.