Bill Clinton

The burden is on the leadership of the Israeli and Palestinian Authority to take the hard decisions necessary to move this process forward.

You made a great grassroots campaign.

I am very proud of all that.

I say to myself, we cannot have a country that asks people to make a choice between succeeding at home and succeeding at work, and insofar as we have to choose, we lose.

Today we have to make a commitment to extend that option to every family in America that needs it.

Let me tell you what we're talking about.

These numbers only matter insofar as they reflect differences in the lives of ordinary Americans.

We can never have a country that is fully successful if millions of people every day get up and look forward to a day in which they are terrified that they will have to make a choice between being a responsible parent and a good worker or…

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order 13010, as amended, is further amended as follows:

We've got to be committed to modernizing relentlessly the Government to do what works.

It is conceivable that people who have had their spinal cords severed will walk again.

The American dream is now in reach for more and more families, and that is a very, very good thing.

It has been our party that has consistently stood for widening the circle of opportunity, deepening the meaning of America's freedom, and bringing this country together and the world together around a union of civilized people, based on…

Partnerships among Federal agencies and with the private sector are an increasingly important way to maximize existing resources and improve child care.

Executive Order 13010, as amended, is further amended as follows:

Nobody thinks we've got the best system of elementary and secondary education in the world.

We were always on the right side of history.

Your Government now is the smallest it's been since John Kennedy, but it is a far more progressive Government than it was 6 years ago.

I now want to guarantee that workers at all nonmilitary, Federal child care facilities undergo such background checks in a thorough and timely fashion.

I say, no, let's fix Social Security because when the baby boomers retire, we don't want to bankrupt the country or bankrupt our kids to take care of us.

Thank you for having all of us here in your beautiful home, in this modest little tent.

One of my highest priorities is to make child care better, safer, and more affordable.

I want our country to go into the 21st century with the American dream alive for every person who will work for it.

I therefore direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to ensure that, to the fullest extent possible, all Federal workers receive full information about child care benefits available to them.

Parents deserve to know that their children are safe and nurtured in child care.