Bill Clinton

I think they want me to give them a good, credible program, and one that will get the economy

We will demand that those who see the Tax Code as a table game to be won rather than a social compact to be respected pay their fair share of taxes.

The time has come for all Americans to have affordable health care, a real chance at a healthy life.

Change is never easy.

I'm encouraged by what the Secretary-General said today

I support—I think you all know I've always been a big supporter of NASA and the space program

I never thought we could do it

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.