Bill Clinton

There are still threats from biological and chemical and nuclear weapons.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 490(b)(1)(A) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, I hereby determine and certify that the following major illicit drug producing and/or major illicit drug transit countries…

I think it is important that today our thoughts be with them.

I believe that when they read this report, they will understand what the consequences of such a decision would be.

It is the policy of this Administration to do more to help this city that occupies such a significant place in our history.

We have turned this country around. We're moving in the right direction.

It's clear that we need to keep working on this.

Colombia remains the world's largest cocaine producer: over three-quarters of the world's cocaine hydrochloride is processed in Colombia.

I am not throwing in the towel.

I urge all the people of the United States to demonstrate support for their local Red Cross chapters and to become actively involved in furthering the humanitarian mission of the American Red Cross.

They're operating on theirs.

I want my country to do well.

I remain committed to making bipartisan progress on Social Security this year.

I think this is once again a call to us to do whatever we can to protect our children from this sort of violence and this tragedy.

Every day, 3,000 young people smoke for the first time, and 1,000 of them will die earlier as a result.

I encourage Congress to send me a clean, straightforward bill to eliminate the retirement earnings test above the normal retirement age.

It has given young families peace of mind knowing they will not have to mortgage their children's future to pay for their parents' health care.

Our country is in good shape at the dawn of the new millennium.

You can't keep us down no matter what, as long as we've got our heads on straight.

I believe that in this new economy, government's role is to give the American people the tools and the conditions they need to make their way and to advance our Nation's progress.

But what I want you to remember is, elections are about the future, and so is governance.

There has never been a better time to expand our investment in Amtrak and the Nation's passenger railways.

Thanks to our partnership and the hard work of the American people, our country is in good shape at the dawn of the new millennium.

I hope we can make this, too, our gift to the future.

The Democratic Party ought to lead the country to making this the safest big country in the world.