sometime in the early morning hours of Thursday.

Is redemption available to everyone in Washington today? Absolutely yes. It’s that kind of town. But any press secretary caught in this particular bind needs to find a way to demonstrate that they can simultaneously...

I think it would be an understatement to say we would like to know what the process is, but we understand how the Senate goes about building a consensus,

There are times when no matter what you do it seems to blow up in your face, whether it’s self-inflicted or inflicted from the outside.

If you are looking for a message to take back the House and the Senate or the White House, there are better ways to go about it.

We have expressed concerns, and we are still concerned … about the atmosphere of intimidation that occurred leading up to the vote. Obviously, they are now in the stage where the votes are being counted,...

What do you expect you’re going to do when you run for office? … You’re going to go to your friends.

We will not use ground troops in anything but a permissive environment,

For three months we gave the Miami relatives every opportunity to follow the law and allow the custody of the young boy to be with the father, and at every turn they frustrated the process,...

Both the president and the first lady are very concerned and asked to be kept up to date on the situation.

Look, he is the governor of Texas, not someone who is setting our international policy.

If we come out of this third debate on the presidential level with three victories and the extra added debate ends up being pivotal in this race, the White House might look at the chair...

will have something to say before he leaves for Japan early tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

He had a series of meetings that lasted between 11 and 3,

It’s a barbaric way to send a message, if that’s what it is.

the prerogative of the Senate to set the rules, and we will wait until the time that they have designated to deal with any motions we might file.

President Yeltsin did mention his decision earlier in the day not to send additional ships to the region and reaffirmed that he will not allow Russia to be drawn into this conflict.

We’re not interested in half measures or hollow gestures.

I think everyone is feeling the effect of some late nights, but they’re still hard at it, There’s no way to predict how long this will go.

We assume the prime minister or his delegation would inform us if they were preparing to leave, and they have not done so.

I would expect over that 24-hour period, there could be some informal discussions,

The president wanted to just let the firefighters know how much the country appreciates what they are doing.

Both the president and the prime minister believe it is important for them to meet at this time to discuss prospects for reaching an Israeli-Palestinian framework agreement…and assess the situation following Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon.

Why do we possibly need to delay this trial any longer? The Senate now knows that they will not remove the president. And the Republican majority has to answer to the country of why they...

We’re not interested in gestures or half-measures. We’re interested in (Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic) complying with the conditions that NATO has set forth.

I now declare in a post-impeachment era, this a gloat-free zone,

The bad news tends to breed bad news and oftentimes there is no way to get out of it other than to just wait it out.

This is about who will run the Supreme Court for the next generation and it looks like they rushed a decision together in a way that doesn’t look that thoughtful.

They exchanged a few words. It was nothing substantive.

Because of politics, the House majority party has impeached the president because they could do it, because they had the power to do it and without making an effective case for it,

I don’t think it’s very likely that you’ll see the president appear before that committee,

The attorney general acted with great patience, … Ultimately the problem was that the Miami relatives refused to respect the law.

On Kosovo, the Russians have played a constructive role. We expect that to continue. … We also expect that Russia will continue on the path of economic reform and move forward with the efforts that...

The idea that we didn’t get along is ridiculous,

There is not a police organization in this country that’s on the NRA’s side. The president will stand by his record of enforcement; he’ll stand by his record of bringing crime down 35 percent.

The White House has not been informed of anyone planning to leave,

They’ll go back to it this evening, and we’ll see where we can go,

it’s important that we continue to build on the initiatives the president has talked about for the last six years.

satisfied with the clear statement that Israel takes into account our security concerns both for U.S. security and the security in the region.

as part of the broad relationship we have with China.

We found most of the recommendations constructive and we are in the process of implementing them,

And as they move forward, they should keep in the back of their minds that there may be consequences for them when this is over,

I think they need to understand, as they get more information they will understand that we had no other choice,

I expect him (Clinton) to get right to work,

I think that the president believes that is a period of time that he’s put behind him, that the country has put behind him. I think Congressman Forbes … was extremely uncomfortable remaining in the...

I think commenting on that would break the basic tenets of the news blackout,

It was all of their work. It was their legal analysis and their tax analysis that formed the foundation of the pardon. So … it is incorrect to say that they were part of the...

There’s a lot of hard work that needs to be done.

It is the latest pathetic excuse from an administration that never admits a mistake, no matter how disastrous.

As the president and others said (on Tuesday), keeping Kosovo as part of Serbia is what Milosevic needs the most. By his actions, he is putting that at risk.