Enactment of this bill would be inconsistent with Executive Order No. 12778 of October 23, 1991, which embodies my resolve to eliminate unnecessary, wasteful litigation.

The fate of that revolution, the future of democracy in Russia and other new nations of the old Soviet empire is the most important foreign policy issue of our time.

Democracies grow together through the countless encounters that take place every day between private individuals.

I cannot approve S. 2342.

I have every confidence that what he says here is true, that they will get to the bottom of it.

Your nation is embarked on a great experiment, a new Russian revolution with freedom as its goal.

I find no extraordinary circumstances or equities to justify an exception to the long-standing policy of the executive branch.

S. 1985 would encourage private creditors to make their lending conditions more stringent.

Today marks the beginning of a new era, a new kind of summit.

I am concerned that enactment of this bill would be unfair to other tribes, and would serve as a highly undesirable and potentially expensive precedent.

I am pleased to announce that President Yeltsin and I have just reached an extraordinary agreement on two areas of vital importance to our countries and to the world.