Bill Clinton

The big issue about—if the 20th century was about freedom and its triumph, the beginning of the 21st century is about whether we will use this wisely.

This is a proposal for this year's budget, and it is a very ambitious one-year proposal that will add millions of people to the ranks of those with insurance.

I have determined that it is necessary to maintain in force the broad authorities necessary to deny any financial support from the United States for foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process.

I am elated that health care is an issue in the campaign.

It really does matter what tools they have to build their dream.

We proved, for example, that the progressive party could run the first back-to-back surpluses in 42 years—not the conservative party, the progressive party.

I'm so grateful that the country is in the shape that it's in.

This proposal has four components.

It's also hard to keep insurance for those who change jobs or are laid off, something that happens more and more in our fast-moving economy.

When you find a turtle on a fencepost, the chances are it didn't get there by accident.

Too many missed chances to prevent illness and prepare young people to lead healthy lives—all these the products of the fact that tens of millions of Americans still don't have affordable health care.

We want America to be the safest big country in the entire world.

I have always been convinced that we had to have the proper balance of punishment and prevention.

We have to decide whether we really believe we're all in this together.

The crime rate's dropped now for 7 years in a row.

I believe that elections are always about the future.

We do have time to do what we want to do, as a country and as a people, to a degree virtually unheard of in our history.

The only thing that can keep us from ratifying this important direction the country has taken in the last 7 years is if either we don't care enough to exert the effort to fight and to finance our side of the argument.

There has been no discernible increase in the burden on any law-abiding sportsperson in this entire country with the Brady bill and the assault weapons ban.

Technologies now exist that could lead to guns that can only be fired by the adults who own them.

I look forward to working with President-elect Lagos and to deepening the friendship and cooperation that have characterized the excellent relations between our two nations.

Every time you give a little, you always get more back.

I congratulate Ricardo Lagos on his victory in Chile's Presidential election.

I also congratulate the Chilean people for an election that was a model of civic participation and evidence of their strong commitment to democratic government.

We have never, ever, ever before had at the same time so much economic prosperity and social progress, with the absence of internal crisis or external threat.