Bill Clinton

I am very, very grateful to the bipartisan majority of the United States Senate who made it possible for us to swear in David Satcher as the next Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary of Health.

We've come a long way in the last half of the 20th century.

Today, the store of human knowledge doubles every 5 years.

FAA Research, Engineering, and Development Authorization Act of 1998

Speak loudly for our children.

David Satcher is taking a very important job, and I am very, very glad that he is doing it.

Environmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998

This is not a complicated thing.

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel PRINCE NOVA, and for other purposes

It cannot be the sole province of medical researchers and medical doctors.

Now, human cloning raises deep ethical concerns.

Approved February 11

We must never for a moment be afraid of the future.

I hope and I pray that he will permit qualified, honest, nonpolitical, technically competent inspectors to have access to those sites which have been forbidden.

February 11, 1998 I have known Bruce Babbitt for many years. He is a man of the highest integrity and a dedicated public servant. I am convinced that when this matter is concluded he will be vindicated. I look forward to his continuing…

I am very proud to be a member of the oldest political party in this country, and maybe in any free democracy.

We should all remember that.

We've taken our party in a new direction for the 21st century to help our country go in a new direction.

It's time to raise it again.

Child poverty is now lower than it was in 1989 at the top of the last recovery.

The purpose of our Government and, therefore, the purpose of any political party, at every important period in our history has been threefold: to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom, and to unify the Nation.

Let’s pass every bit of it we can into law.

What we do here makes a difference, and you've just heard it.

Enlarging NATO will encourage prospective members to resolve their differences peacefully.

NATO can do for Europe's East what it did for Europe's West after the Second World War, provide a secure climate in which democracy and prosperity can grow.