Bill Clinton

This year's theme, 'The Legacy of African American Leadership for the Present and the Future,' is a recognition that we can draw strength and inspiration to face our challenges.

This budget marks a new era of opportunity.

Americans today are safer, more prosperous, and have more opportunity.

To prepare our Nation for the 21st century, we must do more to ensure equal pay, equal opportunity, and equal dignity for working women.

Americans have always believed that people who work hard should be able to provide for themselves and their families.

Americans can't be satisfied until we're all the way there.

We're living in a time of remarkable promise, with the strongest economy in a generation.

Equal pay is not a partisan issue.

Today I'm pleased to announce a new $14 million equal pay initiative.

When a woman is denied equal pay, it doesn't just hurt her; it hurts her family, and that hurts America.

If we meet this challenge—if we value the contributions of all our workers—we will be a more productive, more prosperous, more proud, and a more just nation in the 21st century.

Today I want to talk to you about what we're doing to make sure that bargain works for all our people.

One of the best ways to meet this challenge is to put an end to wage discrimination.

Today, women earn about 75 cents for every dollar a man earns.

Information concerning activities at the operating location near Groom Lake has been properly determined to be classified.

Our goal is not merely to respond to the recent atrocities in Kosovo but to help resolve the conflict so that the violence can end for good.

We can create the community of our dreams in this country at the turn of this century.

The largest pool of ready untapped investment opportunity and new customers is not overseas; it's in our backyard.

Today Secretary Albright forged an agreement with our Contact Group allies on a common diplomatic strategy to achieve compliance with the rules of the international community.

Harold's contributions to this administration over the years have helped improve the quality of life in this country.

I have always had confidence that Harold Ickes acted lawfully and appropriately.

The new rule is an excellent example of our efforts to mend, not end, affirmative action.

Every American has an interest in seeing that every economic opportunity in every community is seized.

The best poverty program, the best anticrime program, the best urban program is still a job for every person who will work.

If we cannot do this now, with what some people believe is the strongest overall economy in our history, believe me, we will never get around to doing the job.