Bill Clinton

Today is World Tuberculosis Day.

We must find a way to help people make enough money and have a decent enough income that they wish to preserve the environment.

Everyone counts. Everyone should have a chance. Everyone has a role to play.

I cannot imagine the world that I want for my children's generation in America that does not include a deeper and better partnership with India.

Today, we are carrying that same spirit forward into the challenges of building peace, democracy, and opportunity.

I think a wonderful week for me and my daughter, Chelsea, who is here, and for our entire American delegation.

There must also be a higher purpose.

The passion for freedom never dies.

In the new economy, you can create more jobs by promoting energy efficiency and alternative sources of energy than by polluting the environment.

It can be done—you have proved it with polio—if governments, foundations, and the private sector work together.

I think we consider this week to have been a milestone in U.S.-Indian relations.

I want to commend Prime Minister Vajpayee for his efforts to focus India's attention on the urgency of this challenge.

Those who survived would have become permanent refugees.

I really do believe that if India—and of course, as I said in my speech to the Parliament, you'll have to make all these decisions yourself.

It is my hope that the Senate will give prompt and favorable consideration to this Convention.

I transmit herewith the revised International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), adopted at the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations at Rome on November 17, 1997.

I would have liked it if they were up front.

We can promote more economic growth in India by using less energy and keeping the environment cleaner.

A nuclear future is not a more secure future.

India has shown us a better way to live with difference.

Let us seize this moment with humility in the fragile and fleeting nature of this life, but absolute confidence in the power of the human spirit.

I believe that the greatest of India's many gifts to the world is the example its people have set.

I call on Congress to work with me on this simple plan to extend the solvency of Social Security while strengthening benefits to reduce poverty among elderly women.

You don't make peace with your friends.

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