Bill Clinton

Compromise is often difficult and always painful.

I am grateful that she has agreed to take on one more assignment.

Nothing you have accomplished has been accomplished through violence and nothing will be.

The actions we are taking will assist the FRY (S&M) in ending its isolation and returning fully to the international community.

The principal reason that the United States needs to retain some anti-personnel landmines today is to protect our troops and allies.

The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far—but that it has not gone far enough.

I have issued a new Executive Order to lift, with respect to future transactions, the economic sanctions imposed pursuant to Executive Order 13088.

You are hereby authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress.

Determine and certify to the Congress that the application of such restrictions would not be in the national security interests of the United States.

I have exercised my statutory authority to take additional actions with respect to the national emergency described and declared in Executive Order 13088.

I acknowledge having knowingly violated Judge Wright's discovery orders.

I remain convinced that despite these difficult and often tragic days, both you and your Israeli partners will find a way to move from the logic of war and confrontation to the logic of peace and cooperation.

I was optimistic about the prospects for restoring these waterways and reinvigorating the communities they help sustain.

I hereby waive the application of the restrictions contained in sections 101 and 102 of the Arms Export Control Act.

For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to maintain in force the broad authorities necessary to deny any financial support from the United States for foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace…

The crisis with respect to grave acts of violence committed by foreign terrorists that threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process that led to the declaration on January 23, 1995, of a national emergency has not been resolved.

Terrorist groups continue to engage in activities that have the purpose or effect of threatening the Middle East peace process, and that are hostile to United States interests in the region.

I hope my actions today will help bring closure and finality to these matters.

The United States has since destroyed more than 3.3 million of these landmines, most of our stockpile.

I have apologized for my conduct, and I have done my best to atone for it.

I do proclaim that there are hereby set apart and reserved as the Governors Island National Monument for the purpose of protecting the objects identified above.

For courage is not only, or even mainly, measured in struggle.

I have also paid court and counsel fees in restitution.

Since I called for the worldwide elimination of anti-personnel landmines in 1994, the United States has taken the lead both at home and abroad to rid the globe of these hidden killers.

I believe that United States policy should be clearly stated to meet this growing concern.