Bill Clinton

We must commit ourselves to the health and welfare of our older Americans and to protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security.

This is a time for us to ask, how can we take advantage of the good times we have and the changes that are going on to meet the long-term challenges of America?

I think the McCain bill is—I think Senator McCain and the Democrats and Republicans who worked with him made an honest effort to protect our children from the dangers of tobacco.

We are all very fortunate tonight and no one can claim full credit for it.

Another is to bring the spark of free enterprise to the inner-city neighborhoods that haven't yet felt it.

I think it would be a bad thing for me to have a specific proposal now.

We know that we can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we know if we do so, we can— in the right way—we can do it and continue to grow the economy at a perfectly acceptable rate.

I think the thing that I'm most concerned about today is the necessity of having growth in every major region of the world to sustain our own.

As we enter a new century and address the challenges of an aging America, we must commit ourselves to the health and welfare of our older Americans.

Our agenda is we're going to have the first budget surplus in 30 years; let's don't spend it until we save Social Security.

We have to continue to lead the world for peace and freedom.

I like the—I believe we need to invest money in infrastructure, in highways and mass transit and bridge repair.

If we achieve that goal, it means by the year 2010 we'll save consumers $11 billion a year in energy costs.

I honestly believe more strongly than I did the day I took office that the promise of this country is limitless, that our best days are before us.

We ought to reform Medicare for the 21st century.

I believe at every age and time, America has to reaffirm three great missions.

I once went to Marvin and Barbara Davis's home and I said, 'You know, this place makes the White House look like public housing.'

We can't lead the world if we don't even want to pay our way.

It seems to me that if you know that and you have this congressional decision to make, it's a pretty easy decision: she was right, and they were wrong.

We are living in a world where the ground is constantly shifting.

My view is, look, we've waited 30 years for this.

The results are there.

I can't run for office anymore—unless I go home and run for the school board or something.

We welcome this weekend's historic announcement that 11 European countries have qualified for, and decided to establish, an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

I honestly believe that woman is going to win.