Bill Clinton

This is a good day for the cause of public health and our children in America.

Our defining mission must be to spread its benefits more broadly and to make rules for trade that support our values.

I hope that the Senate will give prompt and favorable consideration to this Convention.

This initiative represents the largest investment in protecting our green and open spaces since President Theodore Roosevelt set our Nation on this path nearly a century ago.

As I said at the beginning of this inquiry, Bruce Babbitt is a man of the highest integrity, and I was convinced that he would be vindicated.

We are, once again, determined to prove that environmental protection and economic growth can and must go hand in hand.

Safety is the Administration's highest priority in motor carrier transportation policy.

The best way to stabilize population growth is to fight poverty and to build healthy, growing economies in the developing world.

CHIP builds on the Medicaid program, which currently provides health coverage to most poor children.

The lack of health insurance for millions of Americans remains one of the great challenges facing this Nation.

These programs also provide substantial benefits to American workers.

I am profoundly grateful for the things that we have done together and the leadership that you have taken to make America better.

The biggest threat to that future is how many of us on this globe are still in the grip of the most primitive of human limitations, the fear of the other.

There are still people in our country who go to bed hungry.

I want unlimited scientific discovery, and I want unlimited applications.

I believe that we have to use this moment to meet the great challenges we know, without a doubt, 21st century America will face.

We should be thankful that people today live longer and healthier lives than ever before.

We have learned that children without health insurance suffer more from asthma, ear infections, and vision problems—treatable conditions that frequently interfere with classroom participation.

Our work is far from done.

Teen pregnancy is down.

This is simply a question—the average person who's not covered by this doesn't know CHIP from block.

I don't think I've ever been more stimulated by two talks in my life.

I think it's very interesting—and I talk about this all the time—that as we're on the edge of this new millennium and we have these evenings and we imagine this future that you have sketched out to us, this is what we all like to think…

As we mark this day, the central question we face is not simply how many people will live on this planet, but how they will live.

More than 3 million children suffer from hunger at some point during the year.