Bill Clinton

Our plan really from the beginning was dedicated toward being taken seriously by the experts in this field.

We have the country's business to do.

This means over 90 percent of the small businesses in the country... will not only pay no tax increase... but, in fact, will get a tax break.

I want to tell you how very glad I am to see all of you here today.

We are going to do everything we can to stop this practice of nonfunded mandates.

I really don't. And frankly, none of us do.

I also encouraged the staff to remember that we're all people and that we have to pay maybe a little more attention to our friends and our families and our coworkers.

We can be partners there, but a lot of that work has to be done at the State and local level.

I feel passionately myself, as does the Vice President, about the space program and about this project as redesigned.

It is very wrong to define a life like his in terms only of how it ended.

I don't think so. I certainly don't think that can explain it, and I certainly don't think it's accurate.

It is an immense personal loss to me and to Hillary and to many of his close friends here and a great loss to the White House and to the country.

He was a perfectly wonderful man on whom I relied and on whom I put a lot for a very long time.

I will get it and review it and get a report back from the NASA Director.

One of the problems is that when people who advocate the space station at the same time say things like, 'Well, it's just spending, stupid.'

Well, let me characterize the plan.

It is very important that his life not be judged simply by how it ended.

I want to have a good relationship with Senator Shelby.

I have to tell you that they have a very difficult job.

Well, I'm just sitting here meeting with the chairmen, and I'm going to also, you know, keep working through this with the conferees. And we're going to see what we can do. But we're just beginning our conversations, so I can't answer…

Well, you know that I don't believe it does, but today--now, wait a minute, go back and read the policy. Read the policy. Today the Joint Chiefs took the position that any violation of the Code of Conduct must be applied in an even-handed…

No, it will not necessarily require them to stay in the closet. The policy as written gives people a limited right, obviously, to express their sexual orientation. But if they do so, they are at risk of having to demonstrate in some…

Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, that's one of the reasons we have taken the amount of time that we have. The Attorney General, when she took office, was asked by me to review this matter. Both of us agreed that in the normal course of…

Well, let me answer the second question first. I think that will be remembered as the best thing about his tenure. And he deserves the support and thanks of the American people for trying to broaden the membership of the FBI to make it…

I think we have to provide community service type jobs if there are no private sector jobs available in order to justify cutting off the benefits.