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1. "Vote for me and we'll produce more natural gas
in Texas." |
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2. "The West should establish a $6 billion fund to
help stabilize the Russian ruble." |
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3. "I will streamline the federal government and
change the way it works; cut 100,000 bureaucrats and
put 100,000 new police officers on your streets of
American cities." |
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4. "I promise you I will never bash public
employees." |
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5. "I would want the first judge I appointed to
believe in the right to privacy and the right to
choose." |
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6. "[What] would work is to raise the top tax rate
on people with gross incomes above $200,000 to 35
percent or 36 percent and put a surtax on people with
incomes of a million dollars or more a year." |
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7. "We should pay up - and pay now - the past dues
we owe the U. N." |
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8. "If I become president, we will keep a glatt
kosher kitchen in the White House." |
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9. "Under our health care system, all Americans
will have access to quality and affordable health
care through coverage from their employer, or if
they're unemployed, through their government." |
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10. "I want a leaner bureaucracy and more
investment." |
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11. "A national apprenticeship program for non-college-bound young people so they can get good jobs,
fully fund Head Start - those things are not terribly
expensive." |
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12. "To the fathers who have chosen to abandon their
children by neglecting their child support: Take
responsibility for your children, or we will force
you to do so." |
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13. "U. S. [NATO] troop levels can be safely reduced
to a force in the range of 75,000 to 100,000." |
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14. "As soon as the Pentagon issued a study which
said there was no basis in national security for
discriminating based on the sexual orientation of
Americans who wished to serve in the military, I said
I would act on the study." |
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15. "I am going to send Al Gore to Capitol Hill to
take the lead in passing our program in the first 100
days of the new administration." |
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16. "I would bring in all the players within the
first 60 days and tell them to develop a national
health care plan." |
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17. "The Clinton-Gore administration will view the
support of generic industrial technologies as a
priority mission." - Clinton's "Technology: The Engine of Economic Growth," issued September 21, 1992 |
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18. "My first priority would be to pass a jobs
program, to introduce it on the first day I was
inaugurated." |
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19. "My plan offers $50 billion in new investments
over the next four years - new incentives for the
private sector, an investment tax credit, urban
enterprize zones, new business tax incentives,
research and development incentives and others." |
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20. "At the very least, 10 percent of the $76
billion that the government now spends each year on
research should be redirected from the Pentagon's
research budget to civil efforts." |
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21. "We can give you a country again where we are
pro-growth and pro-environment; where we are pro-business and pro-labor; where we are pro-civil rights
and pro-civil-order; where we are pro-family and pro-choice." |
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22. "When it comes to AIDS, there should be a
Manhattan project." |
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23. "We can pledge right now that for every dollar
we reduce the defense budget on research and
development, we'll increase the civilian research and
development budget by the same amount." |
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24. "I want to increase federal funding for
research, prevention and treatment [for AIDS]." |
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25. "I support a strong American role in the U. N.
and with the European Community to end Serbian
aggression. I have supported the use of multilateral
military force, if necessary." |
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26. "My administration will stand up for democracy
and buttress democratic forces in Haiti, Peru and
throughout the Western Hemisphere." |
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27. "We need not just a new generation of
leadership, but a new gender of leadership. This is
a minority I enjoy being in." |
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28. "Those who can [after two years on welfare] will
have to go to work, wither by taking a job in the
private sector or through community service." |
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29. "The United States should lead the fight to slow
global warming, instead of dragging our feet and
ignoring important scientific data." |
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30. "I want to appoint one person, one man or woman,
to oversee and coordinate all federal efforts related
to this issue [AIDS]." |
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31. "A Clinton-Gore administration will not permit
American firms again to sell key technologies to
outlaw stats like Iraq." |
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32. "I certainly will give every consideration to
Hispanic candidates for the Supreme Court." |
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33. "The old adage mi case, su casa will be true
when my house is the White House." |
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34. "All the money by which we reduce defense
research and development I would put immediately into
domestic, commercial research and development." |
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35. "I will elevate economics; create an Economic
Security Council similar to the National Security
Council." |
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36. "My administration will reduce our forces, but
maintain a credible presence in Europe and Asia." |
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37. "I want people like some of you in this audience
to be part of a Clinton Administration, not because
of or in spite of your sexual orientation, but
because America needs you." |
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38. "You live in a country that makes it harder to
raise children than any country in the world. You
vote for me and I'll give you family values." |
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39. "If I become president, I will have a cabinet
that looks like America." |
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40. "My strategy puts people first by investing more
than $50 billion each year over the next four years
to put America back to work _ the most dramatic
economic growth program since World War II." |
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41. "After this election is over, I will continue to
reach out to the American people. I'll get back on a
bus when I'm president. I'll go back and have town
meetings and let ordinary people ask me questions. I
will not hide behind the walls of the White House." |
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42. "With the dwindling Soviet threat, we can cut
defense spending by over a third by 1997." |
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43. "I propose that the U.S. must take the lead in
putting together a bridge loan to help Russia make
the transition from its old system to its new
economy." |
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44. "Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice
between a children's tax credit or a significant
reduction in their income tax rate." |
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45. "Vote for me and we'll conserve more energy all
over America." |
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46. "We'll restore the dignity of blue collar work
by guaranteeing an apprenticeship program to every
non-college bound student in the United States of
America." |
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47. "We will link China's trading privileges to its
human rights record and its conduct on trade and
weapons sales." |
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48. "We'll seek to raise the average goal for auto
makers to 45 miles per gallon." |
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49. "We'll pass a national bottle bill to encourage
recycling by creating small deposits on all glass and
plastic bottles." |
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50. "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to
pay for these programs." |