Bill Clinton

I strongly believe we must forge a similar commitment to support the COPS program's logical successor.

Great nations meet their responsibilities, and I am determined that we will meet ours.

I urge the Congress to pass legislation in a timely manner that would strengthen the Federal Government's ability to combat hate crimes.

This bill fails to uphold these principles.

All I'm saying is, after all we've been through in this country in the last couple of years and all the hate crimes we've seen, I just don't see how we can possibly walk away from this session of Congress and not pass this.

We can do this. This is terribly important, and we can do it.

I vetoed it because it fails to fund the additional 50,000 community police we need to keep crime going down in our communities.

Today my budget negotiators are continuing to work with Congress to finish the job.

Today I honor these Chinese-American veterans of World War II and their service and steadfast loyalty to this country.

Given the urgent need to get the pay increase out and to begin the modernization programs, it was the right thing to do.

Racism and stereotyping have no place in our Nation of diverse peoples.

It is intolerable that the patriotism of Asian-Americans continues to be questioned.

I think we should focus on the bills where the real flaws are.

It is clearly in America's national interest to support an institution through which other countries share the burden of making peace.

I will not allow Congress to raise its own pay and fund its own pork-barrel projects and still make devastating across-the-board cuts in everything from education to child nutrition to the FBI.

I hope that the Members of Congress will work with us in good faith to make this a season of progress.

The United States of America should be the safest country in the world.

I am honored to recognize the contributions of Chinese-Americans during World War II.

I don't think that's an acceptable resolution to this, and I hope that we can work together and work through this.

Asian-Americans... have proved over and over again their loyalty to this country.

This untold story is one of great patriotism and heroism.

Well, I don't know how much longer we have on the commercial break, and I don't own this network, so I could really get the hook. [Laughter] But let me thank you and thank all the artists. And I've got all this stuff to say on the…

I commend everyone participating in Make A Difference Day for adding your own contribution to the tradition of citizen service that has always been a hallmark of our democracy.

I don't think I would have become President if it hadn't been for school music.

It is a very American idea that we meet our challenges not through big government or as isolated individuals, but as members of a true community, with all of us working together.