Bill Clinton

I think we all feel elevated in this building today.

My Administration is committed to reforming the system of Government regulations to make it more equitable for small companies.

We want to open trade in areas where American firms are leading—computer software, medical equipment, environmental technology.

This legislation reforms our job training system so that it works better for America's workers and is more responsive to today's rapidly changing economy.

The small business community continues to perform exceptionally well.

The new budget will spur growth and spread opportunity by providing the biggest investment in higher education since the GI bill more than 50 years ago.

This is a great day for our country.

Significant new capital gains provisions in the law should provide new infusions of capital to new small businesses.

This year's Older Americans Month celebration centers around the theme 'Living Longer; Growing Stronger in America.'

I think the answer is clear.

I want to just take a couple of minutes— you know, you're all here; you've made your contributions; you're warm; and you want to go home.

I call upon Government officials, businesses, communities, educators, volunteers, and all the people of the United States to acknowledge the contributions older Americans have made, and continue to make, to the life of our Nation.

I think the real question is, are working people earning a fair share of their company's prosperity and their country's prosperity?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very important day.

The last thing we should do is to stop doing the things that got us to where we are in the last 5 1/2 years.

I think that the general tendency toward political and economic union in Europe is a positive one.

For more than 60 years, Social Security has provided our older citizens with a measure of economic security.

The biggest challenge to that today, in my opinion, is the challenge of climate change and global warming.

We also want to reform the IRS in a responsible way.

We have to prove we can grow the economy without continuing to deplete the environment.

We have the highest homeownership ever recorded in the history of the United States.

I don't believe we've repealed the business cycle, but I think perhaps we've fundamentally altered it.

This collaborative approach to energy savings is the same one we're also trying to take with the commercial sector.

I think that it might be enough on its own terms if, in addition to that, they have other reforms in the economy.

We have generated more jobs, not fewer jobs, by doing the responsible thing for our environment.