Bill Clinton

Change means asking everyone to pull his or her own weight for the common good.

I'm going to work a while today and a while tomorrow and a while—

[Inaudible]--the question was about. You've got to get--before you lay that on me, you've got to put it in proper context now. What was----

I talked to them last night. I think they got the message. I was really pleased with that last night. I liked it because the people who were asking questions, basically, they talked to me just like they did when I was a candidate. I was…

Well, we thought it would be part of my productivity in Government. We have so many lawyers in the Cabinet--something I didn't know, actually, until someone pointed it out to me--that we could just rotate the job once a month among the…

This is the Close-Up program, but they're not close up. [Laughter] Did you hear what I said today, Helen? [Helen Thomas, United Press International]

It ought to be like clean water and clean air; it ought to be a part of the fabric of our life.

Today, American taxpayers are being hit with $10 in avoidable health care costs, avoidable health care costs, for every $1 we could be spending on immunizing our young people.

I believe they'll be a part of this.

It may not be as much of a speech as a talk.

I've started putting the elements of it together.

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew last year was a sober reminder that we need to provide strong, organized, and effective help to American families whose lives are dramatically affected by disaster.

Bill, I'd like to ask your questioner a question first. As you contemplate going back to work, is your biggest concern the cost of child care or the availability of quality care?

We are there. But that's a direct service to people. That's not a waste of bureaucracy. I think the American people want us to make sure they're safe if we can. Job Retraining

And it could go into Kosovo, which is next door; it could go into Macedonia. You could involve the Turks. You could involve the Greeks. We could have a serious problem. Mr. Bonds. Then you've got a major policy decision to make.

I think that it is reality that if we don't get involved, either nothing will change or the Bosnians will be wrecked and the Croatians will be hurt badly. Mr. Bonds. And it could still spread after that.

She has truly put people first.

Fifty percent of the projected growth in this debt between now and the year 2000 is in health care costs.

The broad outlines of this plan are no secret, but I'd like to restate them.

Americans are at their best answering alarm bells in the night.

We risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years as Americans.

I want to reduce this deficit, not as an end in itself but because I think it is a critical part of a strategy to build jobs and growth for America today and over the long run.

We have to replace this social contract that somehow crept into our thinking in the 1980's, that somehow we had to have greater inequality in this country to get prosperity.

I think I should follow the latter course.

It's a lawyer. How's that?