Bill Clinton

You truly are America's Iron Soldiers.

Thank you for helping civilization not to die over there.

Let me just say, I want to leave on a little bit lighter note. When I read my notes about what all of you do, and I was preparing for this and I knew I was bringing all the--the Ambassador for the United States to Great Britain and the…

It is so much easier to believe that our differences matter more than what we have in common. It is easier, but it is wrong.

Perhaps the most enduring and the most precious is the example of what is possible when people find unity and strength in their diversity.

True peace requires more than a treaty, even more than the absence of violence.

The cease-fire turned the page on that history. It must not be allowed to turn back.

This is an astonishing development really because it is the first formulation anyone has come up with that permits all views to be heard.

One thing I am convinced of as I leave here: that there is a global hunger among young people for their parents to put down the madness of war in favor of their childhood.

The lesson of the last 15 months is that the people like peace, they like the absence of violence.

I'm honored to be joined here, as all of you know, by my wife, members of our Cabinet, and Members of the United States Congress of both parties.

I want to thank the Taoiseach for the courage he showed in working with the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

They want to live together, they want to live on equal and honorable terms, and they want to live in peace.

I am proud to say that I am now a free man of Dublin.

Today, still, the Great Famine is seared in the memory of the Irish nation and all caring peoples.

I leave you with these words, which I found as I was walking out the door from the Ambassador's residence.

I'm going to do everything I can to be supportive.

In another context a long time ago, Mr. Yeats reminded us that too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Waging peace is risky.

I think there is no other nation on Earth that can make that claim.

Yours is a more peaceful land in a world that is ever more peaceful in significant measure because of the efforts of the citizens of Ireland.

I will say that the Taoiseach has shown great courage in the pursuit of peace.

The United States is honored to stand with those who take risks for peace.

Let me just say, yes, I was encouraged.

I'm very gratified by it.