Bill Clinton

GATT will only pass if there is an American effort to pass it that is bipartisan, that is reasonable, that is credible, and that is consistent.

We cannot be the only nation not to ratify the GATT this year.

Fiscal year 1993 brought numerous important changes and developments in U.S. aeronautics and space efforts.

Every day, your lives symbolize that, the first and most enduring lesson of our democracy, and I thank you for it.

Don't let this year go by.

The United States and Russia signed a Space Cooperation Agreement that called for a Russian cosmonaut to participate in a U.S. Space Shuttle mission.

But I really need your help if we're going to do it.

Thus, fiscal year 1993 was a successful one for the U.S. aeronautics and space programs.

I am going to be proud to sign this law.

I am very hopeful that through our efforts — and we have a good relationship — we will be able to resume our trade talks and continue to make progress there.

I want to emphasize today that what I seek, contrary to the attacks, and what you have sought, is not a Government-run health system, it's a private insurance health system that covers everybody.

I also requested that a redesign of the Space Station be undertaken to reduce costs while retaining science-user capability.

As we approach the 21st century, the next chapter of labor history must be characterized by a strong voice for America's workers.

Well, of course, he's going to say that. That's what he's been saying ever since--that's what he told us when he abrogated the Governors Island accord. ``I gave my word. I never expect President Aristide to keep his word. President…

Well, I think we are going to have--we do have an equivalency in terms of people who get here. But we have an obligation to try to let the people who genuinely fear for their lives into this country. We are now going to do that without…

Today, unless you're older, on Medicare, the only people with guaranteed health care in this country are people on welfare.

It just shows you that democracy can work, that systems can change, that things can change.

The real compelling case for health care reform is with these folks here.

We won by two votes on this one.

They might not be organized, but there are tens of millions of them.

We're having this raging political struggle in Washington where everybody in the wide world says, 'Oh, I believe every American ought to have access to health care, but we can't figure out how to do it.'

It can be a time of new beginnings—used to pursue a second career, to gain more education, or to engage in volunteer work that makes our neighborhoods, communities, and the world a better place in which to live.

The only way to fix it, ever, is to provide health care security for all of our people.

The truth is, if you have a chain of food stores, like the one I visited today, and they cover their employees, they're at a competitive disadvantage to people who don't.

We are changing the landscape in America by moving beyond rhetoric to reality.