Bill Clinton

I'm still working, and I'm going to work to the very end.

In the closing days of my Presidency, I want to come to do what I could in the White House to make a positive difference in the schools of America.

I'm glad my country is in better shape than it was 8 years ago.

You will never find anybody who loved doing it any more.

Higher standards, more accountability, greater investment, equal opportunity—it works.

There are schools like this, where teachers and parents and administrators and community leaders are succeeding, sometimes against great odds, in bringing educational excellence to our children.

We need to fill the gap.

You almost never have a good school without a great principal.

We know that when needed most, covered and eligible workers were able to take this benefit.

I hope that for the rest of my life I can be a good citizen and really do some good things for America and around the world.

I believe in the promise of this country.

We must now build on the success of FMLA by giving more workers the protections of the act.

I think I ought to show up for work.

I'm very proud of that.

Children learn best in smaller classes.

I am very grateful to you for that.

Today we pay tribute to the courage of a little girl and to the commitment of a lifetime.

We are becoming more and more interdependent.

For fighting the good fight and saving countless lives, I am proud to present this medal to Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias.

I want to thank you for what you did in the year 2000.

His determined spirit continues to inspire us and to call on us to do more, to do right, to do good.

You can't be discouraged when you lose.

Thank you, Bob Rubin, for helping make America a better place.

Thank you, Charles DeLisi, for your imagination and determination that helped to ignite the revolution in sequencing that would ultimately unravel the code of human life itself.

Archibald Cox, every American owes you a profound debt of thanks for a lifetime of your service to your country and its Constitution.