Bill Clinton

I announced my intention to nominate Robert H. Beatty, Jr., to serve as a Commissioner on the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.

I announced my intention to nominate Katharine G. Abraham to serve a second term as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor.

I think the country is better off with a Surgeon General than without one.

I announced my intention to nominate David L. Aaron for the position of Under Secretary for International Trade at the Department of Commerce.

I announced my intention to nominate Robin Lynn Raphel to be Ambassador to Tunisia.

I call on all Americans to observe this week by actively participating in and supporting efforts to recover food for distribution to hungry Americans.

The proposed categorical waiver of tribal sovereign immunity would undermine the ability of tribes to perform government functions and jeopardize their solvency.

We must also recognize that for all the dramatic expansion of trade in the last 4 1/2 years, we must take new action to move forward.

If we want to spread prosperity and open trade to support peace and democracy and freedom and free markets, we must do this.

We are enjoying now an unemployment rate in the Nation of under 5 percent, with over 13 million new jobs in the last 5 years.

Every President of either party has had this authority since 1974 for a very good reason.

I do not intend to sit on the sidelines, and I'll bet you, when the time for counting comes, the Congress won't either.

And don't you think you have a right to get the kind of education that will let you go as far as your dreams want? Students. Yes!

Don't you believe, if you get the help you need and if you work at it, you can learn what you need to know to make a success of your life? Students. Yes!

Equal opportunity is our central value, but the very meaning of that has fundamentally changed.

Now it is up to you and to me and to our fellow Americans to imagine what the 21st century will be, and then to do what is necessary to make that vision a reality for all our people.

Complacency is not an option and vacations have to remain short in a time still full of challenge and change.

We're going to try to prevail, for the fifth time in 5 years.

The United States has a clear, clear obligation to continue to expand the frontiers of trade.

We have shown that we can put our fiscal house in order while improving services for our elderly.

The news is good today.

We will host the first ever White House Conference on Child Care.

Our Nation was not founded on religion or race or geography but on a set of incandescent ideals.

It is wrong to let people pay into the fund for a benefit they will never receive.

We must also continue to demand responsibility from our citizens.