Bill Clinton

The fact that they did it in broad daylight out in the sunshine is very important.

I think it's quite important, because I think it's important that their people see them working together.

The functions of the Council shall include, among others: improving overall Executive branch management.

I have directed our Government to take immediate action to help ease the suffering.

Now that the Cold War has ended, these shipyards, like many other defense firms, face a new challenge—translating their skills from the military to the commercial market.

I look forward to working with the Congress and the industry to ensure a successful transition to a competitive industry in a truly competitive marketplace.

Overall, the Administration is pleased with the Committee proposals for the Coast Guard compared to the House version of the bill.

What we clearly want to demonstrate is there's not only momentum, but there will be fruits of peace.

It is time to end the boycott, period.

I hereby direct the following: Establish Chief Operating Officers.

The U.S. shipbuilding industry is unsurpassed in building the finest and most complex naval vessels in the world.

The admission of up to 121,000 refugees to the United States during FY 1994 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.

I think this is an important next step.

I'm going to make the arguments that I think are important.

Well, it's a meeting of support. I'm concerned about events in the sense that I hope they go well, and I hope that everything works out all right. But I am firmly in support of the efforts that President Yeltsin is making to hold…

Well, I think he's already given the assurances that all of us hope. They're doing everything they can to preserve peace. And there's a commitment by President Yeltsin to move to a truly democratic system, through truly democratic means…

Well, I have encouraged them to try to make peace. That's what I've encouraged them to try to do. I hate to see another winter come on for all of them there. But that's a decision they'll have to make, their country, their lives, they'll…

Well, you know, this process--this goes on day by day. We're just going to have to see what happens. They want some more territory. You know, I think they're entitled to some more territory, but I don't know if they can get it. I think…

I think it depends on what the facts were. If there were a lot of people armed in there and he was worried about civil disorder and unrest and people being shot, I think that when you're in charge of a government, your first obligation is…

No. It is a tense and difficult issue, and how to defuse what I understand to have been the circumstances around the Moscow White House was a difficult call. I don't think that any of us should be here basically armchair quarterbacking the…

Not if he hadn't done anything wrong, I'm not. Business Week complimented him in an editorial today. I was glad to see a Democrat get complimented in Business Week. [Laughter]

Well, let me say he's told me that he hadn't done anything wrong, and he's done just about everything right as Commerce Secretary. I think he's done a great job, and I have no reason not to believe him.

Fire kills more Americans each year than all natural disasters combined.

Only through education and prevention can we stop its spread.

Today, we honor people who are the dreamers, the pioneers, the risk takers, who remind us that the things we celebrated yesterday were once just a gleam in the mind's eye of a brilliant scientist or an engineer.