Bill Clinton

Funding for Goals 2000 is cut $255 million below the President's request.

I'd like to thank you for supporting our congressional candidates.

We must continue to offer States and communities the tools they need to promote work.

The American dream can be made real in the lives of all kinds of people.

There's opportunity for investment that will create jobs for the others.

When Congress sends me this bill, I will sign it.

We have to continue to press our agenda and to be for something that will excite America and bring hope.

We ended welfare as we knew it and made way for a system based on the dignity of independence and the value of work.

From now on, our Nation's answer to the problems of poverty will no longer be a never-ending cycle of welfare; it will be the dignity, the power, and the ethic of work.

What we really need to do is to make sure that every child, of whatever race and of whatever station, in whatever neighborhood they're born in, has the chance to live the success stories that you have lived.

This bill resolves uncertainty about the future of credit unions, created by a recent Supreme Court decision.

Work is more than a punchcard, more than a paycheck.

It is time to ban soft money, improve disclosure, and curb backdoor campaign spending.

I believe all these things are necessary to help all of you live up to their God-given potential.

I hope when the history books are written, it will look like a pretty good investment that was made in a young man from a modest family in a small town a long time ago.

Tonight's vote for the Shays-Meehan bill is a breakthrough in the fight for bipartisan campaign finance reform.

I congratulate Representatives Chris Shays, Martin Meehan, and their colleagues for their courage and their persistence.

The House Republican plan puts politics ahead of people and puts your future in the backseat.

Funding COPS at the requested level of $1.4 billion is consistent with the Balanced Budget Agreement.

I urge the House to move this legislation to final passage before they adjourn for the August recess.

I'm sure when you started this program some of you didn't know how rewarding it would be.

I urge the Republican leaders of the Senate, who are using procedural tactics to block this measure, to listen to the will of the majority and the loud voice of the American people.

Given the opportunity to work and to learn, there is no limit to what our young people can do.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that interest on lawyer trust accounts (IOLTAs) are the private property of clients and cannot be used to generate resources for civil legal services.

We haven't always been right on every issue in the 20th century, but I think it's clear that we have been on the right side of history.