Bill Clinton

I favor strict controls on how much you can spend running for Congress.

I think we can bring it down by 50 percent in 4 years and grow the economy.

We need more police on the street.

I believe experience counts, but it's not everything.

I want to bring that change to the American people, but we must all decide first we have the courage to change for hope and a better tomorrow.

Mr. Bush, for 12 years you've had it your way. You've had your chance, and it didn't work.

When we pull together, America will pull ahead.

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.

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.

But this is America. There is no them. There is only us.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

There is no them. There is only us.

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.

Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting government back on your side. It's about putting people first.

Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America.