Bill Clinton

And I thank you for making this a tradition.

That's worth a great deal in a world where it's not so easy to be young anymore.

Children are more than consumers.

My Administration has worked hard to give parents the information they need to make the right choices for their children.

Too often today children are exposed to images that glamorize violence and desensitize children to it.

I was proud to sign into law an authorization bill that will put us on the path toward achieving this goal by the year 2003.

The study also should examine whether these advertisements are intended to and in fact attract underage audiences.

With this great power, there also comes an enormous responsibility to ensure that parents have the tools they need.

One of the best personnel decisions I have made as President was to appoint Mark Gearan as the Director of the Peace Corps.

We know we can prevent more youth violence if we work together.

We have a lot to do this year, but this should be put at the top of the agenda and not put on hold.

He has rejuvenated the Peace Corps and demonstrated a deep commitment to its legacy of service and the women and men who serve as Peace Corps volunteers.

Mark has accepted the exciting challenge of serving as the next president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

I know this stuff sells. But that doesn't make it right.

New technologies have enabled us to learn, work, and grow in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago.

Memorial Day has been a time for Americans to take a moment from our busy lives to remember the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to our Nation.

How fitting it is that we are standing against ethnic cleansing with our wonderful, myriad, rainbow, multiethnic military in our increasingly diverse society.

We can say no to ethnic cleansing.

I ask you also to think of our men and women in uniform who are risking their lives in the skies over Serbia, so that our children may inhabit a world where people are not murdered and driven from their homes because of their faith or…

Today, there is a new challenge before us in Kosovo.

But as we contemplate the comforts and blessings of our lives and the wellbeing of our Nation, I ask you to pause just for a moment to remember those who gave their lives to protect the values that give meaning to our lives.

Thanks to our brave men and women in uniform, our Nation has never been more secure.

Let us all join in thanking them for all they do every day to defend our freedom.

I direct the EPA to improve protection of public health at our Nation's beaches by developing, within 1 year, a strong national regulation to prevent the over 40,000 annual sanitary sewer overflows from contaminating our Nation's beaches.

The Action Plan strengthens protections for our Nation's waters.