Bill Clinton

You know, here we are coming to the end of the 20th century.

People say to me all the time, 'What great innovation did you and Bob Rubin bring to Washington to get this great economy?' And I always say, arithmetic.

You can grow the economy and protect the environment at the same time.

I want you to know that the opportunity I have had to serve as President at the dawn of a new era in human history has been an honor, a privilege, and a joy.

I met with these police officers from three different law enforcement jurisdictions.

I can't tell you how much it has meant to me to know that what we have done together has actually made life better for the children of America.

I still think that political parties are important.

America's success was not a matter of chance; it was a matter of choice.

I am so proud of them.

Very few who did it as well as Lew Wasserman.

We are today more tolerant, more decent, more humane, and more united.

The road to Europe is open.

The teachers of America now have example after example after example to rebut the critics.

I think sometimes people tend to minimize the importance of political parties in this day of mass media.

He has been a good Democrat without being a negative partisan.

Today, we have gone from the largest deficits in history to the largest surpluses in history.

And you know, the big question for the American people this year is whether to keep this progress and prosperity going.

It's one of the reasons we need to work hard to keep paying down the debt, keep the interest rates low, and keep creating jobs so there will be a pool of people to buy these homes when they get built.

We need a real consensus on those kinds of things.

America is also more hopeful, more secure, and more free.

We need to do things that work.

Democracy's success is in our interest.

You give Al Gore and Joe Lieberman 8 years and you will see that the best is yet to be.

Compassion is important, but enlightened self-interest is even better.

It is ironic that at a time when we celebrate the triumph of the human genome...here we are bedeviled by the oldest problems of human society—the fear of the other.