Bill Clinton

We're going forward with the phase just as it's planned.

We reviewed it very closely. I think he's going to meet us over at Rutgers today. I was very impressed by it. And as a matter of fact, I had a personal conversation with him about it. That's one of the reasons we wanted to come up here…

It's up to the Congress. We'll present the law, the bill, soon. And I'm hoping it will pass this year and become immediately effective. [A participant explained how improving her education would enable her to pass the citizenship test…

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I haven't talked directly to General Powell today, but he thinks they've gone pretty well.

I mean, something that was never brought up before but is now painfully apparent is that if we did what the plaintiffs in the court case want, we would be consigning a very large number of Haitians, in all probability, to some sort of…

We have now cut from 2 months down to 1 week the amount of time it takes to process people who want to be considered to be refugees in Haiti.

Keep in mind that we've got more than they've had in a long time, and we need to go forward with this program.

But our position is different.

I just don't think we should shut the Congress down while we all look for them.

I expect there will be a lot more as we go along.

I'm pleased that it's ending.

Developing the capacity of the American people to be all they can be is perhaps the most important job that I have as President.

I would discourage the American people from overreacting to this.

If that is so, if that is true, my fellow Americans, and if you believe it, it must therefore follow that each of us has an obligation to serve.

The great challenge of your generation is to prove that every person here in this great land can live up to the fullest of their God-given capacity.

The lesson of our whole history is that honoring service and rewarding responsibility is the best investment America can make.

I believe they are dead wrong.

National service is nothing less than the American way to change America.

National service will be America at its best, building community, offering opportunity, and rewarding responsibility.

I think we ought to do that.

We want to give people some credit for community service they do while they're in college.

This morning I got a report on that, and it's my understanding that we are going through the regular agencies and that the request will be processed promptly.

Our plan will cut the deficit as a percentage of our national income in half between now and 1997, so we can put our resources to work for all of us.

If we get America moving again, I don't care who gets the credit.