Bill Clinton

We're for the Patients' Bill of Rights, and they're not.

The minimum wage has been raised five times since World War II, since 1948; four of those times the unemployment rate was higher than it is now.

Hillary and I, we're doing fine.

We urge the Committee to restore funding for USAID Operating Expenses.

This is about us and our future.

I transmit herewith the report of the Commodity Credit Corporation for fiscal year 1996.

H.R. 3248 is also objectionable because the 'Ed-Flex' provisions that would extend authority to waive Federal requirements to all States lack the critical ingredient of the current program.

No President, no person, has done better work toward this end than President Havel.

H.R. 4300 would infringe on the President's appointment powers and the Secretary of State's flexibility in personnel matters.

We value our ties to the Czech people.

The bill would authorize funds for two mobile x-ray machines to be placed along a specific highway in Bolivia.

Your Velvet Revolution rejuvenated the entire world.

Block grants would replace these worthy programs with general aid for school operations, which is the responsibility of States and communities.

Your Presidency has reminded people around the world that words do matter, that creativity has a place in politics.

It would eliminate programs that focus on our neediest children and schools, and on activities in which national leadership can play a critical role.

You have shown us wisdom and courage.

I will know that it's too grand for me to wear, but I will be very glad that we could do something in the United States, through NATO, to help ensure that that freedom will never, ever be lost again.

Your remarkable life embodies a great lesson, that people who love their country can change it, even against tremendous odds; that words can be powerful instruments of change.

H.R. 3248 would convert a wide array of Federal education programs that address national priorities into a single, unfocused block grant program providing general aid for education.

Today there is not a leader on Earth whose words and deeds have meant more to the cause of freedom than your own.

You have led the Czech Republic to a place of prominence in the new Europe.

This assumption is neither substantiated nor soundly based.

Hillary and I offer our condolences to the family and friends of George Wallace. I remember working with him at the Governors' conference in 1983. Governor Wallace was wheelchair-bound and often in great pain, but he rolled into the…

Today I have asked Gregory Craig to join the White House staff as Assistant to the President and Special Counsel.

You have been with me every step of the way, and I am very grateful for that.