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Bill Jefferson Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of Arkansas from 1983 to 1992. During his presidency, Clinton focused on several key policies, including welfare reform, economic growth, and healthcare reform. His administration is noted for achieving a budget surplus and for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
They're missing the point. They can renegotiate with me all they want. They can't renegotiate it with the Mexicans. I think the Government of Mexico has made it quite clear that this trade agreement includes environmental concessions and…
I think the stakes for our country are high. What happens to me is not nearly as important as what happens to the country. Thursday morning I'll wake up, and I'll get on that plane and go to the APEC meeting and do the best I can for…
Well, the side agreements we made on agriculture were just like the side agreements we made on the environment and on the labor standards. They don't undermine the fundamental things in the agreement. The Mexican tariffs come down. The…
I say that the Vice President, first of all, disposed of most of Mr. Perot's arguments pretty well the other night. The Members of Congress who come to me and ask me for things have asked me to help their people. The people that I've…
My job is to try to lead the United States and to try to help this country move forward and to do what I think is right to get that done. I do not believe we can grow this economy without expanding our trade. I'm doing the job that the…
Our only choice is to take this new world head on, to compete, and to win.
NAFTA will expand our exports, create new jobs, and help us reassert America's leadership in the global economy.
Tonight the leaders of both parties found common ground in supporting the common good.
We must guarantee our workers the training and education they need to compete in the global marketplace.
I think there are really four larger implications of this APEC leaders' meeting as far as we're concerned.
To recognize that we're a Pacific power is not to forget that we're an Atlantic power.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy has the lead responsibility within the Executive Office of the President to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation’s drug control program.
Every Member we get who's in a difficult district, who's voting for this is doing it because he or she believes that it's in the interest of their constituents even if they haven't quite persuaded them yet.
We are living in a country now where gunshots are the single leading cause of death among teenage boys.
We cannot get more jobs in this economy until we have more customers for our products and our services.
The Director shall provide oversight and direction for all international counternarcotics policy development and implementation, in coordination with other concerned Cabinet members, as appropriate.
It is the placement of international economic policy at the front burner of American foreign policy.
The efficiency with which a nation produces and distributes its agricultural products largely determines the vitality, health, well-being, and economic strength of that nation.
We all have a shared desire here to protect perhaps the most precious of all American liberties, religious freedom.
Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
We can't have a GATT agreement without Europe and Asia and the international community coming together on that objective.
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