Bill Clinton

Your vote doesn't make a difference. It does.

Don't let anybody kid you about anything else.

Now we have a chance to finish the job, to make the way we finance campaigns work better, too.

It is the right thing to stand up against terrorism everywhere.

Our goal is to take the reins of our democracy away from big special interests, from big money, and to put them back into the hands of ordinary Americans.

Always positive and optimistic, he believed in the promise of America.

We are strong when we are together.

Too often they operate in secret.

Report on Tobacco and Youth February 15, 1996 This week at the White House, I heard directly from a group of children about the easy access and allure of cigarettes. This report is further evidence that parents need all the help they can…

Thank you. Mr. Vice President? [The Vice President reviewed the concept of universal service as it would apply to computer communications and thanked the participants for demonstrating the future. A participant then invited the President…

Mayor, I'd like to let you speak last, so let me interject here and call on Secretary Riley out there in cyberspace to ask if he has any comments. [Secretary of Education Richard Riley discussed the role of Government as a leader and…

Great. Senator? [Senator Frank Lautenberg emphasized that technological advances had sharpened students' learning abilities and concluded by thanking the President and the Vice President.]

Congressman and Senator and mayor? [Representative Robert Menendez said New Jersey was willing to work with the President to move the rest of the Nation onto the information superhighway.]

But it's important to hammer that home. I mean, the ultimate vision of this is that the reach of the information superhighway will equal the reach of telephones and television here. It will be in every house. [A participant reported that…

Explain to everybody what is in it, though, so that-- -- [The Vice President summarized the legislation, emphasizing the challenge grants to create public-private partnerships. Mr. Cullen then said he expected that corporations would be…

I'd like to call on Jim Cullen, the vice chairman of Bell Atlantic. Bell Atlantic has been an indispensable part in this project here at Christopher Columbus in Union City. I want to thank you, but I'd like for you to talk about your role…

Do you have a lot of parents who communicate through E-mail now? [Mr. Fazio affirmed that it provided an opportunity to reach parents who could not come to the school.]

Thank you very much. [The Vice President introduced parent Louis Clements, who described parental cooperation with faculty and school administrators to expand the program.]

That's great. [Parent Luciano Calles explained that the program motivated children and exposed families to the education process.]

Tell us what biovisualization is. For all of us mere mortals, we'd like to know what that means. [Laughter] [A participant described the project of electronically reproducing specimens from the Smithsonian Institution. Other students then…

It is like our job. [Laughter] [The participant said that rather than being a teacher, he now was a facilitator, a teammate in solving problems. He then introduced two students who described their computer projects, including an effort to…

That's not bad, that's okay. You can say that. [Laughter] It doesn't have to be hard; it can be fun. [The Vice President introduced a participant from Bergen Academy who described how partnerships were created between businesses, schools…

Do you think that has something to do with why people learn more, because it's more fun? [Laughter] Participant. Yes, I do.

That's right. Do you think that having access to the computer makes all children believe that they're equal, that they can have equal aspirations because it's an equalizer across income, isn't it? Participant. Yes, it is.

Let me ask you something. Why do you think that students here are doing better now, like on test scores and things like that, than they would have done if there had been no technology here? What do you think the most important thing is…