Bill Clinton

Trade must not be a race to the bottom, whether we're talking about child labor, basic working conditions, or environmental protection.

I think the developed countries who want an open trading system that has the trust and confidence of developing countries should also contribute to indigenous trade.

We must ensure that every child begins school ready to learn and graduates ready to succeed.

It's important to remember how this happened.

Let us join together to seize this moment.

Trade is especially important, of course, for developing nations.

I came here today in the hope that by working together, we can actually find a way to create the conditions and provide the tools to give people on every continent the ability to solve their own problems.

We must recognize that globalization has made us all more free and more interdependent.

I believe that greater economic integration and political cooperation are positive forces.

Today, we know that because of scientific and technological advance, we can change the equation between energy use and economic growth.

The national unemployment rate in the United States is 4.1 percent.

I think that it is an indication of the importance of the topic and the importance of the World Economic Forum that you have so many leaders from around the world here today.

The state of our Union is the strongest it's ever been.

I believe that we should all be thinking about what more we can do on the indigenous economic development issues.

Develop a shared vision.

To make the American dream achievable for all, we must make college affordable for all.

We must also take the right steps toward reaching our great goals. First and foremost, we need a 21st century revolution in education, guided by our faith that every single child can learn.

These are great goals, worthy of a great nation. We will not reach them all this year, not even in this decade. But we will reach them.

We must shape a 21st century American revolution of opportunity, responsibility, and community.

Even more important, America again has the confidence to dream big dreams. But we must not let this confidence drift into complacency.

We restored the vital center, replacing outmoded ideologies with a new vision anchored in basic, enduring values: opportunity for all, responsibility from all, a community of all Americans.

We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats.

Your police departments know what to do.

The gun death rate is at a 30-year low, criminal gun death rate—30-year low.

No great goal is reached in a single step, but if you take steps toward that goal, you make a lot of progress.