Bill Clinton

I think the American people understand that these problems are of long duration, and there won't be any overnight miracles, but I think they expect aggressive and prompt action, and I'm going to give it to them.

If I catch anybody using the State Department like that when I'm President, you won't have to wait till after the election to see them gone.

My concern here is to do it in a way that is most appropriate for the management of the whole national security and military interests of the country.

I campaigned on a theme of economic hope and creating jobs and increasing income.

I hope that both Senator Gore and I would be able to maintain some greater level of ongoing personal contact with folks than is typically the case.

I don't believe in the gag rule and I think it should be repealed.

I want a secretary of state who understands that we have obligations of continuity and obligations of change.

I am going to move forward on that.

I'm going to do better if we have the courage to change.

I disagree with Mr. Perot that the answer is to put a 50-cent gas tax on the middle class and raise more taxes on the middle class and the working poor than on the wealthy.

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.