Bill Clinton

We are trying to connect all of our schools to the Internet by the year 2000.

Scientists know that this can be done.

Yes, first of all, obviously I think it is important for China to be a member of the World Trade Organization.

There is nothing more important.

In Shanghai, you are building that bridge to the 21st century, and we want to build it with you.

We are working very hard in America to make sure that more of our own people go on to university.

Everyone understands that there is a new China emerging in the world that is more prosperous, more open, and more dynamic.

I think it could be possible.

You are making Shanghai a place the world looks to for commerce, culture, and people of different walks of life thriving together.

I think we would greatly benefit from working together, because there is no perfect system.

Shanghai is truly the place where East meets West.

I think that we need to make sure that all of our major libraries are connected through the Internet.

I tell President Jiang we have too many lawyers and too few engineers.

I think, for one thing, you should be much more disciplined than we were about making sure you have good, high-quality mass transit.

I think there is a tendency among the Chinese to see these kinds of political or religious dissents as—at least to be very supersensitive to the prospect of instability.

It is a great honor for my wife and members of our family, six Members of the United States Congress, and many members of our Cabinet and other American citizens to be here in Shanghai tonight.

People shouldn't look at it just as one person investing in another.

I think China only has like 115,000 lawyers, something like that.

You know, the part--the steep incline you see up there, we were told, is the steepest part of the wall. So if we had a couple of hours, we could walk 10 kilometers, and we'd hit the biggest incline, and we'd all be in very good shape when…

She just kept saying how happy she was I was in the church and how she wished I could come to the little village where she was from. She was very emotional. But as nearly as I can tell, there was nothing specific that she was saying. She…

No. [Laughter] I said yesterday that I felt--I believe this wall now is a symbol that China shows to the rest of the world, not a wall to keep people out. It sort of unifies the country for over 7,000 kilometers. Visit to Chongwenmen Church

I believe that the more advanced an economy becomes, the more important it is to have a higher and higher and higher percentage of people with a university education.

There is established the President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History.

We Americans need to be sensitive not only to preserve the freedoms that we hold dear but also to create an environment in which people can build a truly good and free life.

The distance between our two nations, indeed between any nations, is shrinking.