Bill Clinton

I am vetoing H.R. 3064 because the bill, including the offsets section, is deeply flawed.

We need to do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children.

We need more teachers in smaller classes in our public schools, instead.

For these reasons, this across-the-board cut is not acceptable.

We will never reach agreement unless there is honorable compromise.

By choosing an across-the-board cut, the Congress has failed to meet that responsibility.

That was the analysis even across the river here in Virginia.

In adopting an across-the-board reduction, the Congress has abdicated its responsibility to make tough choices.

The legislation also contains crippling cuts in key education, labor, and health priorities and undermines our capacity to manage these programs effectively.

Congress needs to send me commonsense legislation that closes the gun show loophole.

Let me remind you of what the climate was at that time.

Reject the false promise of the Senate-passed bill and send me the bipartisan measure that delivers the real protections that patients deserve.

The bill is clearly unacceptable.

The proposed Agreement provides for cooperation between the parties and authorized persons within their respective jurisdictions.

H.R. 170 would protect consumers against deceptive mailing and sweepstakes practices and reinforce their rights.

We cannot walk away from this.

I feel that we have revitalized the peace process.

On behalf of all Americans, Hillary and I offer our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones to the devastating cyclone that struck eastern India Friday and Saturday.

The greatest quality a human being can have is the ability to reach beyond that last one-tenth of one percent to unite in the common humanity of the other 99.9 percent.

I feel quite good about it.

The United States Government is providing more than $2 million worth of food and $100,000 worth of tents and plastic sheeting to help alleviate the hunger and immediate suffering.

I urge the Senate to pass this bill as soon as possible.

I think we just have to talk about—to get agreement on the ground rules, how we're going to proceed.

They have agreed that the leaders will personally continue to meet on a regular basis.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war, this is literally the first time in my lifetime that we have had both a very strong economy and a society coming together.