Bill Clinton

Most people have enough trouble just trying to educate their kids and pay their bills.

We're not about to abandon them, not about to abandon them, because of people like you.

I signed an Executive order which says any manufacturer who wants to do business with the Federal Government must tell its neighbors what dangerous chemicals it puts into the air, the earth, and the water.

These actions should continue unless specifically prohibited by law.

I am committed to the effective implementation of this law.

I intend to fight them every step of the way.

There is no evidence that environmental protection has hurt our economy at all—none.

The right to know that the air we breathe and the food we eat and the water we drink will be safe is central to our security.

It is time to put partisanship and politics aside and to get the job done.

The American people deserve real welfare reform and have been kept waiting long enough.

Community right-to-know is here to stay.

This basic security really is in jeopardy today.

We need a bipartisan bill that ends welfare and replaces it with work.

I am directing the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency...

I cannot in good conscience let America gut its commitment to education from Head Start for poor children to affordable college loans for college students.

The American people want a high-wage, high-growth, high-opportunity future, with safe streets and a clean environment, where people have a chance to make the most of their own lives.

If you say for sure you're going to do something, you simply have to do it.

The Bosnian situation is heartbreaking.

I believe we have exercised a great deal of leadership, and I think it's been consistent with our interest in not having troops there in this U.N. mission.

I believe that he wants to see the Croats and the Muslims stay in their confederation within Bosnia.

I do believe that President Tudjman will be reluctant to do anything that will knowingly spread the war.

The American people should care, first of all, because if the war spreads in the Balkans to other areas it could destabilize many, many countries in which we have a vital interest and bring America into the fray.

I explained that the original Croatian action, which we were told by the Croatian Government they would feel compelled to take, was animated by the Serbian attack on Bihac. But we have asked them to exercise real restraint because we are…

Yes--well, I'm concerned that it could spread the war in Bosnia and in the Croatia-Serbia area. Let me just back up and say the Croatian offensive originally was launched in response to the Serb attack on Bihac, one of the protected areas…

We will send a clear signal to our citizens that they should not have children until they are prepared to care for them.