Bill Clinton

I said I wanted to create a country in the 21st century where there was opportunity for every citizen.

I argue repeatedly that there are only three options here...

If we solve everything, if we reached an agreement on Social Security, Medicare, if we committed to pay the debt off in 15 years, think of all the things that would still be there for them to disagree about.

We have a terrible crisis in American agriculture today.

I think part of it is the—that's—I think we're doing what we should do, which is to keep plugging at the policy stuff.

Government's role is to create the conditions for success.

The Government can no longer ignore them.

I want everybody in America to know that while our country has been blessed with this economic recovery, not all Americans have been blessed by it.

All Americans benefit when all Americans work.

We can't rest until every American who wants to work has a chance to get a good education, a good job, and raise a family in a strong community.

We have the longest peacetime expansion we've ever had, almost 19 million new jobs.

I want to come to the heart of America and Appalachia to talk about whether we're all going forward into the 21st century.

I want people to know a lot of good things are going on here now; number two, I want them to understand that more good things can go on; and number three, I want us to do more.

I want us to pass a law in Congress to create new markets in America, to say we're going to give a businessperson the same incentives to invest in new markets in America we give them today to invest in new markets overseas.

If we, with the most prosperous economy in our lifetimes, cannot make a commitment to take every person along with us into the 21st century, we will have failed to meet a moral obligation.

If we can't find a way to give every single hard-working American family the chance to participate in the future we're trying to build for our country, we'll never get around to do it.

I find that the actions and policies of the Taliban in Afghanistan constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

Our diversity is one of the great strengths of our nation and a source of great pride.

I hereby report that I have exercised my statutory authority to declare a National emergency with respect to the threat to the United States posed by the actions and policies of the Afghan Taliban.

July 2, 1999 Hillary and I were saddened to learn of the death of His Holiness Karekin I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church. I have sent my condolences to the Vicar General at the Holy See of Echmiadzin. His Holiness was widely…

There’s no evidence that these fruits and vegetables are less safe than those grown here in the United States.

It only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch, only one shipment of contaminated food to threaten hundreds, even thousands of Americans.

Americans have a right to know that the food they serve their families is safe, whether it comes from the far corners of the world or the corner produce stand.

Foodborne illness is difficult to control in a changing world.

Today I want to talk about what we must do to ensure that the food we serve at those gatherings is as safe as we can possibly make it.