Small firms created a more than proportional share of new jobs relative to large businesses.

Discrimination, whether on the basis of race, national origin, sex, religion, or disability, is worse than wrong.

Women and minorities can be expected to continue making great strides in business ownership over the coming decade.

I am concerned that the bill does not contain an express description of the lands it will affect.

We must continue to find the means to educate and empower young people, new immigrants, women, minorities, and all who aspire to be entrepreneurs.

Our goal and our promise has been equal opportunity and equal protection under the law.

I am signing this bill with the understanding that these lands consist of, and are limited to, approximately 10,650 acres of the Mineral Strip.

I am today signing H.R. 4593, the 'San Carlos Mineral Strip Act of 1990.'

The temptation to support a bill -- any bill -- simply because its title includes the words 'civil rights' is very strong.

When our efforts, however well intentioned, result in quotas, equal opportunity is not advanced but thwarted.

This title is unnecessary because the Secretary of the Interior has sufficient authority and discretion to establish appropriate power operating criteria for the dam.

I am confident that, with the strength and spirit of American enterprise, we will be able to build an even stronger economy in the last decade of the 20th century.

We will work in the Senate to address the following issues:— If remains and funerary objects are not linked to or claimed by a contemporary tribe, the Federal government should maintain stewardship responsibilities over the remains.

Conservative estimates suggest that full implementation of H.R. 5237 could cost as much as $20 million.

Unaltered, S. 2104 would violate that pledge.

Additional studies should be allowed where necessary to ensure a correct determination of affinity.

The broad categories of 'sacred objects' and 'objects of cultural patrimony' should be deleted from the operation of this bill.

We cannot shrink from our national commitment to equal protection under the law and equal opportunity for all.

If you want to make something happen, if you want to govern rather than just give speeches, you have to sit and work very hard and give a little and take a little.

I feel optimistic that we can get this job done for the American people, and it needs to be done.

This requirement would circumvent the 'full funding' agreement between the Executive and Legislative branches to score these purchases to avoid misrepresenting total project costs.

I encourage the people of the United States, as well as government officials, to observe this week with appropriate programs and activities designed to enhance public awareness of the risks of excessive radon exposure and ways we can…

The relationship between Italy and the United States probably has never been better.

The Congressional oversight process makes this limitation unnecessary and burdensome.

I also encourage every American to wear a red ribbon during this week as an expression of his or her commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.