Bill Clinton

Recent advances in technology and information systems can help eliminate dangerous medical errors.

This is a good day for America, not only because of this report but because of the response to this report.

I look forward to making a real stab at that next year, and I see some hopeful signs there.

Ensuring patient safety is not about fixing blame; it's about fixing problems in an increasingly complex system.

If we can't get it to them now, we will never get around to it.

When things are going well, a nation has to make a decision — to reach out for all those who have been left behind.

I was trying to think of some one thing I could say that would illustrate the esteem in which I hold Tim Johnson and Barbara.

We have the opportunity that no generation of Americans has ever had: to take our kids out of poverty; to give them all health care; to bring genuine economic opportunity to the people and places that have been left behind.

More must be done to improve health care outcomes and prevent medical errors.

It's easy to lose your concentration when things are going very well.

Once you know about a problem, you're under a moral obligation to deal with it.

I came here tonight not only because I owe Jesse and because I love him... I also came here because I'm not running for anything.

I think it's very important that we look at the big challenges facing this country.

We have the first back-to-back budget surpluses in 42 years.

Our country is greatly blessed.

I think what it calls into question is whether we've done everything we can to invest the kind of money in avoiding errors that other big complex systems have.

I'm telling you, in my lifetime—in my lifetime—this country has never had—not one time—the same level of economic prosperity, social progress, and national self-confidence, in the absence of domestic crisis or international threat, never…

We just have to do that now.

We must do so because it's the right thing to do and the surest path to a world that is safe, democratic, and free.

I am pleased to announce that we will spend, next year, at least $2 million to educate and improve the health of Afghan women and children refugees.

We simply will not tolerate child slavery, the sale or trafficking of children, child prostitution or pornography, forced or compulsory child labor, and hazardous work that harms the health, safety, and morals of children.

Today we honor five brave Americans whose lives have made a difference.

I am pleased that the Consolidated Appropriations Act that I recently approved included my full $40 million request to get this program started.

I am delighted to sign S. 580, which will support research needed to improve health care and help train new pediatricians and pediatric sub-specialists.

Until people like Eleanor Roosevelt came along, the rest of the world didn't even recognize that the right to speak out is more than something enshrined in the American Constitution.