Bill Clinton

We're so blessed. We've got this wonderful, wonderful system of undergraduate education and colleges where there are literally hundreds of good choices.

I am writing this letter to encourage you to pass a straightforward minimum wage bill that gives working Americans the pay raise they deserve.

I've tried to—I've increased the number of empowerment zones.

And if every franchise in America would follow that lead, America would be a very different place.

This modest increase would simply restore the real value of the minimum wage to what it was in 1982.

Eliminating barriers to financial services competition will allow American companies to better compete in the global economy.

I will direct the Department to seek such authorization on any fine or penalty it receives, ensuring full accountability for all such violations.

This legislation will help the American financial services system play a leading role in propelling our economy into the 21st century.

I don't want to do anything inappropriate.

I'd like to go to a Super Bowl, and I'd like to go to a college championship, now that the new football system is in.

I wouldn't--I don't think we should rule it out or in. We ought to make sure--see how much progress we can make between now and then. You know, I would do anything I could to help them.

I told them that I understood they wanted to leave town, and I was not trying to keep them here.

We have to acknowledge the fact that we have been willing to tolerate a much higher level of violence than we should have.

Today's overwhelming vote in the House is an encouraging step toward passage of a strong, enforceable Patients' Bill of Rights.

I urge Congress to act for the benefit of the citizens of the District and our Nation's Capital by sending me the agreed-upon legislation, unencumbered by objectionable legislation or provisions.

We value fiscal responsibility.

This across-the-board cut would result in indiscriminate reductions in important areas such as education, the environment, and law enforcement.

I have approved the Agreement and authorized its execution and urge that the Congress give it favorable consideration.

I would have signed this legislation, but the House attached to it highly objectionable legislation that would have failed to fund important priorities in education, health, and other areas.

There is strong bipartisan support for both of those things.

I look forward to working with the Congress to craft an appropriations bill that I can support.

I join with all Americans in expressing shock and profound sorrow at the shootings which have occurred over the last 2 days in Honolulu and Seattle.

I have not given up and neither have they.

I am pleased to transmit to the Congress the text of a proposed Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States of America and Australia.

The consensus bill on the District passed by both Houses remains acceptable to me, and I would sign it if it were presented as a stand-alone bill or unattached to objectionable legislation.