Bill Clinton

I personally believe the consolidation of a lot of these discrete programs is very important.

I think the best thing we can do for people who are living with HIV and living with AIDS is to pass a comprehensive health care plan so that people do not lose their benefits.

I think we have done a good job in the first year of this administration.

We want to help you in these areas.

I want to emphasize a few things about this brunch.

America gave them the freedom to be their best.

One of the greatest pleasures of being President is the authority to choose recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

We have an historic opportunity now to build an economic and political partnership with Central and Latin America into the 21st century.

They honored our country by becoming five legendary defenders of our freedoms in return.

We honor these people not for any private success, not for any personal pursuit of glory but for their selfless devotion to the public interest.

There are things that the other countries have to do as well.

As he once told Bill Moyers, the role of the Constitution is, and I quote, 'the protection of the dignity of the human being and the recognition that every individual has fundamental rights which Government cannot deny.'

I wanted to move as quickly as possible.

They will work hard to ensure that the American people's savings are secure.

Today we have acknowledged that debt to five great reformers.

With their banking expertise and demonstrable commitments to public service, Anne Hall and Andrew Hove are outstanding choices for the FDIC Board.

Justice Marshall's son, Thurgood, Jr., said his father would have been most proud of this award by being honored alongside Justice Brennan.

I encourage all Americans to observe these weeks with appropriate programs and activities.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

No holiday tradition is more American than Thanksgiving.

But there's still a lot to do.

We won passage of our reforms in each House in campaign finance.

Together, I believe we can do that.

Every one of these changes, every step we take, has to be measured in a job that a mother or father finds or an opportunity a child gains.

Now workers have a right to take some time off to take care of a sick family member or newborn child without losing their jobs.