Bill Clinton

It forces America's schoolchildren to pay the price for Congress' failure to make responsible choices.

It fails to include a key accountability initiative to help turn around failing schools.

I would do anything I could to help them.

If you really want to honor me, finish the job.

He feels very good about what has happened here.

Today we bear witness to the wisdom of the Psalm which says, 'the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.'

Based on what I now know and my conversation with President Mubarak, based on what I now know, I do not believe that, no. I have no reason to believe that there is any element involved in this which would overshadow or shadow the work of…

We don't know. We have no evidence of that at this time, and I think it's better if people draw no conclusions until we know something. Thank you.

Only our people. They've briefed me. But we don't know, we don't know what the cause of the accident is. We'll keep working until we find out.

Today, there are almost as many people, perhaps even more people of Norwegian descent in the United States than in Norway.

Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 1999 as National American Indian…

Free people still look to Norway and will always do so.

I hope I will be remembered as someone who got our country to assume its responsibilities in the post-cold-war world.

The record books confirm that.

The people of Chicago and all Americans who love the game of football will miss him profoundly.

And I want to say a special word of thanks to the Norwegian people.

There is nothing I would not do if I thought it would genuinely help to build a lasting peace in the Middle East.

Let us do all we can to remind all those in positions of influence, within our countries and beyond our borders, that we share a common destiny.

I would feel that real progress has been made if they made agreements about the modalities under which they will proceed.

We were saddened to hear of the death of Walter Payton.

To both of you, we are honored to be in your presence.

Walter Payton would not stop running until his Bears were as great as the Bears of old.

I hope someday someone will welcome me back in that fashion.

Our friendship is rooted, of course, in our common shared interests and our common shared values; also, a remarkable textured, shared history.

Walter Payton faced his illness with the same grit and determination that he showed every week on the football field.