The choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. In many ways, it is not even Republican or Democratic. It is different. It is new. And it will work.
Bill Clinton
The Public Record
Bill Jefferson Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of Arkansas from 1983 to 1992. During his presidency, Clinton focused on several key policies, including welfare reform, economic growth, and healthcare reform. His administration is noted for achieving a budget surplus and for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Our country has fallen so far so fast that just a few months ago the Japanese prime minister actually said he felt sympathy for the United States.
In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again—old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community.
The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
We've gotten to where we've nearly them'ed ourselves to death. Them, and them, and them.
In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again- old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community.
That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement.
A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.
I am well aware that all those millions of people who rallied to Ross Perot's cause wanted to be in an army of patriots for change. Tonight I say to them, join us, and together we will revitalize America.
We don't have a person to waste, and yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us.
If we want to use government to help people, we have got to make it work again.
I do not want to return to the time when we made criminals of women and their doctors.
This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting government back on your side. It's about putting people first.
I believe this difficult and painful decision should be left to the women of America.
He won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will.
He won't give mothers and fathers the simple chance to take some time off from work when a baby is born or a parent is sick, but I will.
When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again.
The Republicans have campaigned against big government for a generation, but have you noticed? They've run this big government for a generation and they haven't changed a thing.