Bill Clinton

I am also encouraged that over the last week the aviation industry met with Secretary Slater and pledged to work with my administration to address the service related issues and the long-term outlook for quality customer service.

AIDS can rob a country of its future.

I believe we should do more.

Your diversity is a great opportunity in a global society growing ever more intertwined.

We are delighted to be in Nigeria.

Nigerians have shown us that democracy is a necessity, especially when times are hard.

We've set out to hire 100,000 of the highest quality teachers.

I have called on the Congress to support my Administration's Equal Pay Initiative and to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.

It is always and everywhere a work in progress.

For millions of American children, this is the last glorious weekend of summer vacation.

The world needs Nigeria to succeed.

I strongly support that, and I would favor expanding the number of eligible nations once we've actually taken them in some proper order.

Today I'm announcing the first-ever national online teacher recruitment clearinghouse.

With more teachers, smaller classes, modern schools, and faith in their future, our children will do more than reach for their dreams; they'll achieve them.

We must deal with the challenges for development not as separate entities but in partnership, as members of the same global family, with shared interests and responsibilities.

I begin this visit with enormous admiration for the progress you have made and the highest hope for the progress you will make in the future.

Nigeria is poised to do great things for its own people and for Africa's democratic destiny.

Democracy gives us a chance to avoid that future.

It is good to be back in Africa for the second time.

The size of the Security Council should be expanded, that there should be a permanent African seat.

The hope we celebrate this evening owes much to you, for you have twice answered the call to restore civilian government.

I hope we can do this in Nigeria, and I hope you will work with us to get the job done.

I have the high honor today to visit the new Nigeria and to pledge America's support for the most important democratic transition in Africa since the fall of apartheid.

Now and forever, your success shall be our success.

Democracy depends upon a political culture that welcomes spirited debate without letting politics become a bloodsport.