Bill Clinton

Those who want to gamble with Medicare are asking Americans to bet their lives.

I am honored to stand in the tradition of the Presidents who fought for Medicare.

It is easy to see how, in all but the direst of emergencies, millions of older Americans would actually just give up the medical attention to which they are entitled.

This reduction would terminate efforts to increase the quality of the Nation's economic statistics and would degrade the quality of some existing economic indicators.

They are cutting deeply into Medicare and Medicaid, and they are cutting the very education and training programs that our working families need.

But they shall not be allowed to succeed.

Today is a good day for the United States.

I will not allow our people to be sacrificed for the sake of political ideology.

The way we spend our money... says an awful lot about who we are.

Today we honor the memory of a great American, Johnson Chesnut Whittaker.

Republicans want to balance the budget through cuts that hurt working families while providing a huge tax cut that goes largely to people who don't need it.

These harsh, partisan, and unwise cuts undermine that consensus as well as the future income and living standards of working families and their children.

We mustn't throw over, in a moment of partisan zeal, the common sense and bipartisan conclusions of our fathers and mothers.

We have to restore the American dream of opportunity and the American value of responsibility.

I offer my deepest condolences to the Government and people of Israel at this tragic moment.

I want to invest in our people, not turn back the clock on them.

May God bless his memory, and may all of us honor his service to the United States of America.

I want this country to be a high-opportunity, smart-work country with good jobs and safe streets.

I proposed a reasonable plan to balance the budget while investing more in education and training.

If Congress sends me this bill in its present form, I will have to veto it.

COPS is a highly successful program that promotes community policing, a proven, effective means of reducing crime at the neighborhood level.

We join with all those working for peace in expressing our outrage and condemning in the strongest possible manner this brutal act.

Peace requires courage.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.

We can balance the budget while protecting our common ground.