Bill Clinton

One of the most important factors behind a child's educational success is having a caring, competent, and committed teacher.

Today's report shows that our strategy is making a difference.

People crave coherence in life.

The importance of universal education and not narrowly defined education is greater than at any time in all of human history.

The Internet itself offers opportunities for people who don't have access to traditional jobs to make money.

Democracy is an unfinished business, still to be perfected.

Neighborhoods are safer now, and American families are more secure than they have been in a generation.

Technology has permitted us to say, for the first time since the industrial revolution, it is no longer necessary to grow an economy to burn more greenhouse gases to burn up the atmosphere.

I feel deeply privileged to have been here.

The rich countries of the world ought to ratify the child labor convention and do more to help women and to get little girls in school.

We're for opportunity, responsibility, and community.

There are not just problems in this economy dealing with equality and opportunity; there are opportunities, too.

People in Africa are no different from the people in America.

We are making enormous progress in our national strategy to fight crime.

We don't know enough about what is actually going on in our own countries and how it compares with other countries to make the best decisions about what the way forward is.

To keep crime rates down we must remain vigilant.

The most effective democracies that will do best with the modern economy are those that not only have majority rule but very clear, unambiguous, and passionate commitments to the protection of the rights and the interests of minorities.

We have in the United States been blessed, for example, with a stock market that has more than tripled in the last 7 years.

America continues to experience the longest continuous decline in crime on record.

If we could embrace that goal, I think it would be a very good thing to do.

We know that there are the following problems with the new economy if you just have a laissez-faire policy.

Congress must now do its part to reduce gun violence and crime.

We have the lowest crime rate in 25 years.

It's no longer necessary to choose between growing the economy and preserving, and even improving, the environment.

We have to do to what works.