Bill Clinton

This agreement, which follows in the tradition of other important strategic stability measures, will move us another important step back from the nuclear precipice of the Cold War.

We believe that Israel's initiative to reduce Economic Support Fund assistance provides an important basis on which to build future assistance programs.

The challenges we face are formidable.

I could not sanction presenting a bill to the American people that is nothing more than an empty promise.

The cuts embodied in the Committee's funding level for USAID assistance programs to the NIS would result in a funding level that is $30 million below the FY 1998 level.

We must build the future together.

Ensuring basic patient protections is not and should not be a political issue.

Every choice Russia makes today may have consequences for years and years to come.

These cuts would make it extremely difficult to push for market reforms and support democratic forces across the region.

Your history is much longer than ours and so rich with accomplishment.

I will urge them to work for full and speedy implementation of the Good Friday accord— the best way to put an end to conflict and ensure peace in Northern Ireland.

Harold Ickes has been an important part of this administration's efforts to move our country forward.

This statement is an important contribution to building the trust and confidence necessary to make the Good Friday accord a reality.

Congress must take action to modernize our schools and help provide smaller classes with well-qualified teachers.

I join Prime Ministers Blair and Ahern in welcoming today's statement by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams committing to exclusively democratic and peaceful means in the political process in Northern Ireland.

I remain fully committed to working with you, as well as the Democratic Leadership, to pass a meaningful patients' bill of rights before the Congress adjourns.

Since last November, I have called on the Congress to pass a strong, enforceable, and bipartisan patients' bill of rights.

Today I am pleased that a bipartisan group of Senators voted to reject parts of the extreme House Republican education and training budget.

I urge you to make the patients' bill of rights the first order of business for the Senate.

To have an effective foreign policy, a strong national security policy, and to promote continued economic prosperity, it is essential that additional resources be made available to the Subcommittee.

With this agreement today, this cooperation will now be expanded into the strategic arena.

They voted to make many of the essential investments in our children for which I have been fighting.

The ultimate purpose of it is to fulfill the noble urges of your soul.

Russia will take off like a rocket.

I have criticized the House Republican education and training budget because it shortchanges America's future.