Bill Clinton

May we always act in concert to achieve the harmony the founders dreamed of.

I believe that the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is in the best interests of the United States.

I hope future historians will look back and say this was a time when the high principles that led to the founding of the United Nations at last were realized.

You have earned your reputation as a peacemaker.

The Treaty creates an absolute prohibition against the conduct of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosion anywhere.

I hereby determine that it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that $4 million of funds made available under Chapter 4 of Part II of the Act for fiscal year 1997 be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds made available under…

Today, through your strong leadership and quiet diplomacy, you are serving also as a different kind of peacemaker.

We cannot—there are a lot of people who believe in the information age, with things changing as fast as they are and with standards needing to be as high as they are, that we ought to just basically send everybody money and let them do…

I wanted to prepare America for a new century.

I'm convinced the climate change challenge is real.

Education is the magic that takes place in every classroom and indeed in every student's mind.

I hope to goodness by the time I leave, we'll really be able to say there's no reasonable prospect of a recurrence of a nuclear-dominated world.

If we want to preserve excellence and the socially unifying impact of public schools over the next generation, I am telling you, every school in the country has got to become like this one.

I'm glad that the crime rate has gone down every year I've been President.

We had the biggest reduction in welfare rolls in history.

I think we need to know how we're doing based on a common standard.

We need them to succeed at both.

I am profoundly grateful for the chance I've had to serve as President.

I want Congress to give me the authority every previous President for the last 20 some years has had to expand trade.

We have finally created an environment in which we have opened the doors of college to all Americans who are willing to work for it.

Now no one seriously questions that the Brady bill and the assault weapons ban and the 100,000 more police—that that was the right approach.

This is a stunning achievement.

I think America is very well poised for the future.

I believe in charter schools.

I wanted to be able to say when I left office that every child in this country would have the opportunity to live up to his or her own dreams and capacities if he or she were willing to work for it.