Bill Clinton

That was a long time ago, and we're still here.

We're going to try to do that.

I know very well of the extraordinary work you have done for health care in Arkansas, for education, and of course, the center you established in your name and your late husband's name for families in Springdale.

Now, before anything else, I want to tell you that my number one objective in our relations with Canada is to win the World Series back.

I commend all those who are standing today for peace.

They deserve peace, and we must all work to help them achieve this goal.

The people want peace.

Every parent has a right to expect that their children will be safe in school.

We should have high standards, high expectations, high technology, and access, access for a lifetime.

The Long Beach, California, school district recently found that after students started wearing uniforms, there was a substantial decrease in student drug cases, sex offenses, assault and battery cases, and fights.

It is obvious that unless the school is a safe, disciplined, drug-free learning environment, it's impossible for learning to occur.

None of this is going to work unless our schools work and unless our children feel safe and secure.

I have spent an enormous amount of my time in the last 18 years now since I became a Governor of my State in 1986—'78—in public schools.

And none of these goals can be achieved unless we meet our seventh challenge, to give our children—all our children—a good, world-class education.

The entire United States of America is in your debt because you took the first step to show that elementary and middle school students could wear uniforms to class.

We have no choice but to do what Americans have always done, to take on the challenges of the present and to march right through them.

Don't you just wish we could behave this way all the time?

Quality education is critical to America's future and the future of our children and families.

When we are divided, we defeat ourselves; but when Americans are together, we are never defeated.

We must have zero tolerance for threats to safety in our schools.

When Americans work together we never lose, and when we are divided we defeat ourselves.

Every one of us has an obligation to work together, to give our children freedom from fear and the freedom to learn.

I haven't lost all my powers of persuasion. [Laughter] Battered and bloody though I may be, I can still once in a while make a good argument. [Laughter] Thank you.

I don't know that there are any guarantees left in this old world, but I feel quite confident that this team of people will be confirmed.

Direct the drawdown for Jordan for the purpose of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, of up to $100 million in defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense