Bill Clinton

The major choice before America is not whether we're going to have big or smaller Government but whether we're going to work together to solve the problems.

I believe we can and we will take all these important steps to increase the security of the American people.

Every child deserves to have a dream and to have a chance to live out that dream.

A default could raise interest rates and impose serious, long-term harm on the economy.

Today, Senate Democrats and Republicans, working together, have increased the security of the American people by ratifying the START II nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia.

The people of our space program still carry with them the memory of the Challenger astronauts and keep alive in their daily striving the spirit of the friends and colleagues they lost on that tragic day.

We can outlaw forever poison gas if the Senate ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention this year.

Governing by continuing resolution is not the appropriate way for the Congress to perform its work.

Submitted January 24

I was so afraid you were going to say ``good.'' [Laughter] [Gov. Paul Patton of Kentucky stated that the program had shown strong results in empowering the community and thanked Mayor Abramson for the presentation.]

Go ahead. [Mayor Abramson introduced Stephen Kelsey and Robin Cook, district resource officers, who discussed police outreach efforts in the community to build grassroots support for community policing efforts.]

Great. That's a wonderful idea. Mayor Abramson. Yes, we've got that right there. You want us to just bring it up and put it on the----

I must say, this is the first person I ever heard talk about that, but it makes a world of sense that it would be very good for citizens if one person on every block in a big city, for example, knew how the police department worked, what…

Is this being done anywhere else in the country that you know of? Chief? Mayor Abramson. Is it? Police Chief Doug Hamilton. San Francisco?

Since you've been doing this, do you think the general feeling of the people that live in your neighborhood about the police has improved? [Ms. MacLuton indicated that there had been a great deal of improvement in police-community…

Let me ask you a question. You said--and I appreciate you saying that, but you couldn't be doing this without the Federal funds. But it's also true that you couldn't be doing it if you didn't have the citizens involved---- Mr. Altieri…

We will continue to build on the work Roger started.

People live together because they think they'll all be better off than if they were all out somewhere else by themselves.

I hope public servants everywhere remember his example: to put partisan differences aside and work for the common good.

He served his country with distinction over the last 3 years.

The crime rate is going down in most communities in this country, thanks to the efforts that you and your police chiefs, your police officers, and your community leaders are making.

The state of the Union is strong.

I learned of Roger Johnson's resignation as Administrator of the General Services Administration with deep regret.

Those big numbers don't mean much to people; they really want to know how they are doing in their communities.

Our goal should be to make crime the exception rather than the rule.