Bill Clinton

Ministers noted that the Ministerial illuminated the breadth and depth of the U.S.-Africa partnership.

This is a challenge best met at the State level.

He did it by carefully listening to the Irish people, understanding what they needed to do, how they could change, how they could not, and treating them with a profound amount of care and respect.

We look forward to the day when Irish children will look at the Troubles as if they were some part of mystic Celtic folklore.

Providing essential assistance to victims of natural disasters and helping our farmers at home with vital financing clearly fall in the category of needs that are urgent, unanticipated, and essential.

Tonight I think I can speak for all of us when I say we were genuinely moved by what George Mitchell said.

That is true economic progress.

Emergency assistance for reconstruction aid will ensure that their transformation continues and will deter illegal migration by assuring that Central Americans have cause to view their own futures in the region with hope.

I am pleased that the Senate, on a bipartisan basis, included in its national missile defense (NMD) legislation two amendments that significantly change the original bill, which I strongly opposed.

Today the Congress is beginning its work on patients' rights legislation.

Now we all know why he fought so hard for the working people of our country.

We should be thanking them because it's the only time we can be absolutely sure there will be peace between Republicans and Democrats in the United States.

Unfortunately, the proposal by the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee falls far short of the legislation the American people deserve.

The people of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic overwhelmingly endorsed it.

Millions of Americans should not be held hostage to the hope that their State might pass legislation providing these protections.

They must lift their sights above the short-term difficulties.

Well, this son of immigrants has done his dead-level-best to make sure that in our country everybody does have a chance.

Next year we will, for the first time, determine whether to deploy a limited national missile defense against these threats.

Your presence here today is a strong commitment to the peace process and therefore gratefully noted.

The changes made in the NMD bill during Senate debate ensure these crucial objectives will be fully taken into account as we pursue our NMD program.

We are very much in need of them, and we'll make good use of them.

I will say what I have said from the beginning: The United States will support all sides in Ireland that take honest steps for peace.

We are committed to meeting the growing danger that outlaw nations will develop and deploy long-range missiles that could deliver weapons of mass destruction against us and our allies.

We have to give an accounting of ourselves.

We want to help all of you succeed.