Bill Clinton

The Republicans have campaigned against big government for a generation, but have you noticed? They've run this big government for a generation and they haven't changed a thing.

He won't give mothers and fathers the simple chance to take some time off from work when a baby is born or a parent is sick, but I will.

We will put our people first again.

George Bush, if you won't use our power to help America, step aside. I will.

It's time for a change in America.

I am not pro-abortion; I am pro-choice, strongly.

He won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will.

A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.

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.

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.

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.

When we pull together, America will pull ahead.

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.

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.

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.

That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement.

There is no them. There is only us.

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.

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

And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.

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.