Bill Clinton

I transmit herewith a 6-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to Sudan.

Too many spend huge percentages of their income on prescription drugs.

You've got to make up your mind.

We can never repay them or their families, but we can honor them, and not just with words but with action.

I believe he will be reelected.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The United States has lost one of our closest friends.

The bonsai tree he gave me, and which he tended himself, is a living symbol of our alliance.

Congress must pass commonsense gun legislation to protect our children without constraining the rights of legitimate gun owners.

Helping to keep guns out of the wrong hands is a Mother's Day gift we can all be proud of.

There are lives at stake.

The decision before Congress is whether to go from an annual review of their trade relationships with us, to give them permanent normal trading status.

We ought to give this a chance.

What they are doing is profoundly important.

I applaud Chairman Young, Representative Miller, and others for their leadership on this effort.

I call upon the people of the United States to observe these occasions with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.

Today, more women are in the labor force than ever before; the female unemployment rate is at its lowest in more than 40 years.

I urge the Senate to move swiftly on this legislation.

I also invite all Americans to display the flag at half-staff from their homes on that day.

The overriding priority for responding to the crisis of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa should be to improve public education and to encourage practices that will prevent further transmission and infection.

If a bill that fails to address these concerns were to come to me in its current form, I would have to veto it.

That bond is a child's first experience of the world, and that love is often the deepest source of the self-esteem, courage, and character that children need to thrive.

We know we can make the economy better.

Each year we set aside this special day to acknowledge all that our mothers--whether biological or foster, adoptive or stepmothers--have given us.

The pledge we made a decade ago is still what we ought to be working on.