What we would not want to do is … take away health insurance for adults for which there is no insurance market. If you’re 65 years old, what’s the market for health insurance?

We call upon you to make an immediate determination and to allow the local use of federal funds for needle exchange programs as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention program. To do anything less would...

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big...

What we’re doing is protecting elderly disabled immigrants in nursing homes, … They’re not part of the welfare reform debate. The welfare reform debate is about moving people from welfare to work.

a step forward in the battle for our children’s health and our nation’s future.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

Today we have good news about America’s health,

It’s our responsibility as caring adults in this country to protect our children,

will inform public policy at the state and national levels.

Comprehensive protection of personal medical records is what Congress called for in the law, and it’s what American patients and their providers want and need,

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

We can’t wait for everybody in this country to get good health insurance, … When you really want to close a health care gap and you do not have a single health care system, you...

We’re losing ground in the battle to protect our children,

We can’t afford as a nation – not because of money but because of our social fabric – to have large numbers of people who are not working.

We must not lose sight of the fact that it will take further action by public health officials and local communities to reduce the health effects attributed to tobacco use,

How could you not see how important you were to us?

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

This will not be as generous as people think, … Face the Nation.

I’ll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration’s plans.

They will help Americans to cut through all the fads and all the myths concerning our diets,

[Younger Americans are also a concern because] almost 15 percent of young people aren’t physically active at all, … We face a great public health challenge.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they’re finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to...

Africa, Asia, every country in the world, they were all in denial. The health ministers kept assuring us they had everything under control. (Gayle) kept pushing . . . to get programs, strengthen the private...

He’s your dream candidate for president of the United States, … He’s a moral man, an intellectual. He thinks through issues, he struggles. He shows the complexity of decision-making in the White House.

Illicit drug use fell from 11.4 percent (in 1997) to 9.9 percent (in 1998) among young people aged 12-17, a statistically significant decline, … while illicit drug use overall remained flat.

She has the right stuff, … And having the right stuff is not something that is exclusive to one chromosome or another.

I’m pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

This early report is very promising and shows that we are making progress in moving parents on welfare into jobs or giving them the work skills they need to get a job,

Drugs are critical to modern health care,

Well, it took everybody a while to build relationships of trust, whether it was the White House staff with the cabinet agencies.

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

He went from being a governor to being a president, from being someone who thought that perhaps states could do almost everything to someone that wanted to make sure that, when we did devolve power...

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

Most managed care companies want to give every piece of information,

I’ve spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Helene was not afraid to go into a brothel, nor was she afraid to invest U.S. resources in AIDS at the ends of the Earth, to give actual hope.

Every day that goes by means more needless new infections and more human suffering,

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year...

We believe we should keep going. We’re telling a story about excellence, about going from being very good to extraordinary.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a...

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I’m in the car.

Each day, 10 children and teens are killed by firearms, and that is 10 too many, … However, it is a significant decrease from four years earlier. This indicates that violence prevention efforts are showing...

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

She actually started the women’s network in this town,

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), … Meet The Press.

You don’t want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

All of those women would say they stand on the shoulders of Mrs. King. So do the rest of us, not just women of color.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

Sending a tough message against drugs, particularly to young people, is a little like sending a message into deep space, … The message goes out and then you wait a year or more to find...