Bill Clinton

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?

No one is above the law.

Government has an obligation to provide the proper environment in which business can prosper, but the private sector drives the economy.

I think sometimes you do, but that's what you're hired to do.

Janet Reno is ready to tackle the Justice Department's problems.

I'm going to keep trying to change, and I'm going to try to stay in touch with you this whole 4 years.

We're going to fight to change.

We can't have a job in a place where people can't walk to work safely.

The important thing is not to balance the budget overnight but to put it on a steady and decided downward tack.

I wish I knew how to have an immediate impact.

I am not going to roll over and play dead.

I believe I got elected on a commitment to change America, to create jobs, try to raise incomes, to face the health care crisis.

I think the public will support the policy that he will outline today, yes.

From now on agencies and departments will not be allowed to create new commissions without permission from OMB.

These Executive orders are just a beginning, but they're a good beginning.

Such authorization must be in accordance with the May 22, 1992, Office of Management and Budget Circular A-126.

We have an obligation and an opportunity to change the way Government works and to show that Government can do more with less.

The taxpayers should pay no more than absolutely necessary to transport Government officials.

The purpose of this order is to achieve real reductions in the administrative costs of Federal agencies.