Bill Clinton

And a deal that has never been inflicted on any other city, State, or region in our country.

And we should owe our highest allegiance to the people who are in this country. And before we extend 100 billion more dollars in tax cuts, and before we continue to run up this deficit by funding the war and all of the other associated…

There are a lot of other alternatives than imposing discriminatory conditions on the American people--the American people along the gulf coast.

Bring nothing home or bring something that is not going to help your hospitals, is not available to many communities because they are not going to be able to borrow it in the first place because they cannot repay it.

I came from a meeting where a number of business executives along the gulf coast are desperately trying to figure out what they are going to do. Entergy in New Orleans has just taken bankruptcy. They said if they have to put the costs they…

We will require that the money be repaid. As Senator Landrieu has said in this Chamber: It is a little bit of a catch-22, isn't it? You say to hard-pressed sheriffs offices in parishes, to municipal governments in towns and in New Orleans…

My job is to make sure that nobody's left out and left behind.

I would defend the president and the Congress stoutly for doing whatever it takes to honor our obligation to the victims of Katrina.

Yes, they do. Keep in mind, this is a long way from where we were when I started this in late 2002.

In the case of the drug companies, we didn't ask any sacrifice of them. Their current strategy then was high margin, low to modest volume.

We actually do know how to do this now and we have a lot of Americans who didn't understand the connection that we have to other countries; much more sensitive to it after 9/11. So, I'm -- I feel more optimistic about this than I ever have.

It's 100 percent preventable and yet it's sweeping the world like a firestorm, killing people of all ages in its path.

It's sweeping the world like a firestorm, killing people of all ages.

The most obvious one was that even after I lost a lot of weight in 2001, I couldn't run more of a mile without stopping to walk.

I think what surprised me the most before the surgery was learning that 10 percent of people who have heart attacks past their most recent stress test.

Well, I don't have anything like the potential I have in this AIDS area, where I can move into a vacuum, organize things, bring things together and all of a sudden two years later, 110,000 people are getting the medicine who weren't…

Eight thousand people die of AIDS every day, which means we have a tsunami every month.

I want to save as many kids as I can, give as many people a chance to live their dreams as I have.

We can not sustain it from a health care point of view. It is devastating to the country for people to be ingesting as much fat and sugar as they are eating the way they do.

I think the brush with dead I had maybe had the biggest impact of all. Going through health problems that I did, I realized that one more time I've been given another chance. And I just wanted to make the most of it.

First of all, the legislators and the governors should get involved, because they provide most of the money for the schools. So the first thing I'd ask them to do is look at schools. Set some standards for school meals.

That would be an appropriate gesture in honor of Paul Klebnikov. I look forward to continuing my work with the senior Senator from Kansas and chairman of the Helsinki Commission, and I thank him for his leadership.

Paul Klebnikov's work continues to serve the people of Russia and the cause of democracy. We should continue to press authorities to find everyone who was involved in Paul's murder and hold them to account.

These recent developments underline the fundamental importance of transparency. I hope the Russian authorities will share as much information as possible with Paul Klebnikov's family. Without a transparent process, doubt will remain that…

For their part, Russian law enforcement authorities have made arrests and filed charges. While Russian authorities should be commended for the energy they have shown to date, there are additional steps that would increase the chances that…