Bill Clinton

The answer to your question, sir, is Social Security is basically under control if we bring the deficit down.

One day, it will produce a President of the United States.

We cannot force people to choose.

The only thing I ask you to do is, even if you disagree with me, never run away from the problems.

I have embraced this course and why I hope others will as well.

I want to say thank you for that.

The costs are spiraling out of control.

I thought we'd get an American trying to mimic an Australian accent. [Laughter] I didn't realize we had--go ahead. Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Well, we don't know yet. But I'm hoping that they'll be very well represented, and I kind of think they will be. We owe the last question to an Australian journalist because we promised 50/50. Go ahead.

If I might, let me just say, first of all, on the economic issues, Asia is the fastest growing part of the world. Latin America is the second fastest growing now. About 40 percent of our exports are now going to Asia. And more and more of…

We plan to finance it now through economies associated with implementing the reinventing Government report. An Australian journalist. Yes, sir?

Well, perhaps the Prime Minister would like to comment on this, too, but what we are trying to do with the Export Enhancement Program is to have it run, if you will, only against or in competition with countries that have done things that…

Well, I'm going to reiterate what I said before. I am for this agreement because I think it will create more jobs. I think anyone who wants to enter the debate should do so. I think we should be very careful that if we make an assertion…

Terry [Terence Hunt, Associated Press], I'd like to call on you first, and then if we could, I'd like to alternate between one question from an American journalist and one question from an Australian journalist. So we'll have to go on the…

Why, I hope so. I've always wanted to come. I had one other chance to go to Australia, and I had to turn it down because of when I was a Governor. And I've been jealous of every friend of mine who ever went there. So I sure hope I can come.

As you know, we're going to have a joint statement afterward, and we'll answer your questions then. But I do want to welcome the Prime Minister and his colleagues here. I want to say to all of you how very important the relationship that…

Good morning. First, I want to welcome Prime Minister Keating here and his colleagues from Australia. We're looking forward to having a very good discussion, and we'll have some comments later, as you know. I also want to applaud the…

This will work because their tariffs are still higher than ours.

There is established in the Commerce Department the 'United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure.'

This agreement will not make that any easier.

It is time that we reestablish that belief, that conviction, that commitment.

The National Information Infrastructure shall be the integration of hardware, software, and skills that will make it easy and affordable to connect people with each other, with computers, and with a vast array of services and information…

This agreement will make it harder because it will change the economics in ways that benefit both sides of the border.

We cannot afford to look inward.

Expanding trade makes more jobs; educating your people better makes more jobs; providing more investment makes more jobs.