Bill Clinton

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I don't believe in the gag rule and I think it should be repealed.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

I think that the clear mandate of this election, by the way, from the American people was an end of politics as usual, an end to the gridlock in Washington, an end to finger-pointing and blame.

I want a secretary of state who understands that we have obligations of continuity and obligations of 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'm going to do better if we have the courage to change.

I favor strict controls on how much you can spend running for Congress.

We need more police on the street.

I think we can bring it down by 50 percent in 4 years and grow the economy.

Mr. Bush, for 12 years you've had it your way. You've had your chance, and it didn't work.

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.

I believe experience counts, but it's not everything.

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.

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

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.

There is no them. There is only us.

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

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.

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

We will put our people first again.

It's time for a change in America.

Our families have values. But our government doesn't.