Bill Clinton

We must act so that the children of the world can walk without fear on the earth beneath them.

For 14 years, the Inter-American Dialogue has played a leading role in framing the debate on issues that really matter to the peoples of our hemisphere.

I think that your devotion to learning, to hard work, to family, to the ideas of entrepreneurialism and the idea of engagement with the rest of the world, these are the kinds of things that will keep America great in the 21st century.

By honoring Saul you have paid a fitting tribute to the extraordinary, extraordinary service that this great American and citizen of the world has rendered.

This is a peculiarly American event we're about to have today.

The mutual responsibility that employers and employees feel toward one another and toward the larger society is becoming even more important.

If we fulfill them in the appropriate way, more money will be made, the free enterprise system will be stronger, more jobs will be created, and America will be a better place.

I am directing that effective immediately, our Armed Forces discontinue the use of all so-called dumb antipersonnel mines.

Public service is not capable of operating at a very high level of productivity and quality based on pride and partnership of the workers.

Thank you on behalf of the United States for the many contributions that the 9 million Americans who trace their roots to Asia and the islands of the Pacific make to our country every day.

Until an international ban takes effect, the United States will reserve the right to use socalled smart mines or self-destructing mines as necessary.

I thank you all for all you have done to help define and shape the currents that flow deeper today in our hemisphere because of your work: democracy, market economics, justice, and growing partnership.

We have always believed that free markets and free enterprise made our whole country stronger.

Today I am launching an international effort to ban antipersonnel landmines.

I believe we should do more because, under the proposal, kids in this country would still be confronted with Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man on billboards and stores and all the magazines.

The economy is changing more than it has in a hundred years, moving into this information technology age, moving into this global economy.

Participation in deferred profit-sharing plans has grown from 8.4 percent of the work force in 1980 to 18.3 percent in 1991.

We're determined that lands around the world will never again be sown with terror.

I will do everything I can to implement them all, including the international agreement to ban all antipersonnel mines, as quickly as possible.

America is a great country because we have welcomed successive generations of immigrants to our shores.

Saul has led here at home as well, working to confront the problems of racism, urban decay, and poverty.

The United States will lead a global effort to eliminate these terrible weapons and to stop the enormous loss of human life.

I think it’s worth pointing out that there are literally millions of people out there working in partnerships trying to make their companies more profitable, their lives better, and their country stronger.

I'm delighted that the Inter-American Dialogue is also intensifying its work.

This is a country founded on a certain set of ideas, a certain set of values, a certain set of principles.