Bill Clinton

Ladies and gentlemen, I know I speak for Vice President Gore when I thank all of you for your courage and your support on behalf of your own children and your own families and working families all across this country. We believe that next…

Thank you very much, Al. And hello, ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank you for agreeing to join us on this telephone call today and through this telephone call to speak to the people in your own State and throughout the United States…

Ladies and gentlemen, I know I speak for Vice President Gore when I thank all of you for your courage and your support on behalf of your own children and your own families and working families all across this country. We believe that next…

Well, it makes one point. I think it strengthens my hand, if you will, in two ways. One, I agree with the principle embodied in the case. I have not read the opinion, but as I understand it, the opinion draws the distinction that I seek to…

I still think I'm right; I feel comfortable about the way we have done this; and I'm going to maintain the commitment that I have.

By allowing workers to tend to vital family and health care needs without jeopardizing their jobs, this legislation would provide American workers with rights enjoyed by workers in virtually every other advanced industrial nation.

One of the things that we are determined to do here in Washington is open the Government to you.

I hereby direct you to submit to me prior to July 15, 1993, a draft of an Executive order ending discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in determining who may serve in the Armed Forces of the United States.

I think a lot of you said this, but I just want to close with this: It's easy for people to talk about family values, but it's also important for us to value families.

The Department of Commerce will play a leading role in the development of a high skill, high wage economy.

This compromise is not everything I would have hoped for or everything that I have stood for, but it is plainly a substantial step in the right direction.

I do not expect that to spark this kind of problem.

The principle behind this for me is that Americans who are willing to conform to the requirements of conduct within the military services, in my judgment, should be able to serve in the military and that people should be disqualified from…

I'm satisfied with what I hope the resolution will be.

I think that there's a lot of response to the efforts we're making now, but there's also a lot of troubling news about lost jobs.

I came here to talk about the economy today with Mr. Greenspan.

I think it's going to fit, don't you?

No, it's distracting you, it's not distracting—

I'm going to give a speech to the joint session February 17th, and we'll lay out my program then.

I was very impressed by them.

If it were 101 days I wouldn't have a heart attack, but I don't want to--I want it done now. I think we know what the major alternatives are. What we have to do now is something nobody's done, and that is to meld them into the best…

Of all the people I've ever worked with in my life, she's better at organizing and leading people from a complex beginning to a certain end than anybody I've ever worked with in my life. And that's what I want done here.

I think you can do it if you control the cost of health care. You have to really--let me just--I don't want to get into one of these things that provoke a lot of cartoons about my policy wonk weakness, but we're at 14 percent of our income…

I think you can do it if you control the cost of health care. You have to really--let me just--I don't want to get into one of these things that provoke a lot of cartoons about my policy wonk weakness, but we're at 14 percent of our income…

If it were 101 days I wouldn't have a heart attack, but I don't want to--I want it done now. I think we know what the major alternatives are. What we have to do now is something nobody's done, and that is to meld them into the best…