Bill Clinton

This is a job-creating and job-restoring measure that will bring good jobs and economic growth back to this industry.

I am writing to inform you of my intent to add Belarus and Uzbekistan to the list of beneficiary developing countries under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of UNITA.

I know you could do something about this, and I'm asking you nicely to do it.

I am prepared to work with the Congress on a corrective amendment that would resolve this constitutional question so as to eliminate the risk of litigation.

We have the highest murder rate in the world and our children are more at risk here than they would be in most other countries.

With the enactment of H.R. 4277, we are beginning a new chapter in the history of the Social Security program.

There should be no more excuses, no more tricks, no more delays.

I sincerely hope that it will reassure those currently paying into the system that they too will receive benefits when they retire.

As I have stated many times, my Administration is committed to 'putting people first.'

Pass the Darby-Klaas-Sposato crime bill, and do it now.

Washington should not walk away from them.

Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 4277, the 'Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994.'

Establishing an independent Social Security Administration will enhance its ability to meet this goal and provide 'world class service' to all Americans.

I came here because your church stands for what our country ought to be and where it ought to go.

This church to me symbolizes what America should be all about right now.

God has worked through this pastor and his wife and his family and all of you.

It is God's work through a religious ministry.

I ask you to pray and to speak to your friends and neighbors and to hope somehow we will all find the wisdom and judgment to come back and do the will of God in our ministries.

I came here because I needed to hear the sermon.

Everybody has a job to do.

Today, I don't think we have a bigger job than trying to keep our children alive and rebuild our families.

Countless little children out there and they could go one way or the other.

We don't have a bigger problem than the violence which is eating the heart out of this country.

It was with deep sorrow and regret that I learned today of the death of NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner.