Bill Clinton

General Jones brings to the job of Commandant a wealth of operational experience, exceptional leadership skills, and strong strategic vision.

Together we can provide the humanitarian assistance that the people so urgently need.

This bill will offer States more flexibility in their use of Federal funding in exchange for demonstrated increases in student achievement.

I am particularly pleased that the conference report strengthens accountability measures and preserves our effort to reduce class size in the early grades.

Our most precious resources are our children.

NATO must play the same stabilizing role in Central and Southeastern Europe that it played in Western Europe.

We are all called upon to construct a new architecture for the European house, a permanent and just peace order for our continent.

We must do more to reach out to our children and teach them to express their anger and to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

We can put a human face on the global economy.

If it can happen here, then surely people will recognize that they have to be alive to the possibility that it could occur in any community in America.

I agree with Helmut.

I think tonight we owe it to the people of Littleton and to the families involved in this tragedy to let them go through the grieving and deal—and try to get the facts.

I strongly believe that we should do whatever we can to get enough counselors to the families and the children as quickly as possible.

America and Europe will do what it takes to defend them.

The greatest challenge in Europe, to Europe's stability, emanate from beyond NATO's territory.

I hope the American people will be praying for the students, the parents, and the teachers.

Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved ones.

Everybody is for education in general, but not enough people are for it in particular.

I hope that the Congress will act on this.

We have 2 million teachers to hire in the next few years.

America will continue to support these efforts.

We have to redouble our efforts to recruit more of the best and brightest young Americans into teaching.

We should also honor our teachers as patriots.

Teachers hold the future of America in their hands.

They stood for the best of the American spirit.