I think the president believes the curriculum is by law and by all common practice left to local school boards, … I think the president believes, that the local school boards, though, are bound by...

The president fully recognizes this disrupts lives. But this is what reservists train for. This is what their mission is. From time to time, they are called.

[After handing in the editorial to the newspaper Friday,] the president himself noted that that was a very poorly worded sentence, and we changed it, … This Week.

The parties know what they need to do, and we felt that staying an extra day gave us a better chance of getting there,

It’s certainly an unfortunate incident that we regret. We were looking forward to their participation at the Millennium Summit.

everyone who was in those meetings.

In a shameless attempt to cover up its failure to secure 380 tons of highly explosive material in Iraq, the White House is desperately flailing in an effort to escape blame,

Obviously, we’ll need to wait and see the details before making any formal comment.

I don’t think he’s breathed an outward sigh of relief.

This mission does not represent the United States government. It is private and it is humanitarian.

This was done responsibly, carefully. It was a limited operation that took less than three minutes with eight people,

What we expect the oil companies to do is as the cost of oil goes down, that those savings are immediately passed on to consumers and that there should be no lag. That’s something that...

we should not allow a dispute on a single issue to derail the important work we’re doing on a wide variety of issues.

You let someone know that you are leaving the White House on July 1 and by February you are already booked.

We don’t need to test (nuclear weapons to ensure their reliability). We’re trying to constrain the rest of the world from testing. We’re trying to lock in our advantage.

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that’s crying out for more judges.

We’ve suffered a little bit because of our focus on security. We haven’t talked enough about issues like health care that women care about.

There’s a government-wide effort to make sure that our computer systems remain secure,

I think the congressional Republican leaders are completely misreading the public right now. The public wants progress, and I think they will look dimly on political leaders who believe this year is about speeches and...

Never thought that ‘body slam’ would become a literal phrase in politics.

About noon, the president and Chairman Arafat began their first bilateral of these discussions

in a good atmosphere; the discussions have been serious … both sides fully understand the difficulty, but understand what is ahead of them.

As far as the resumption of talks, it’s impossible to predict when those talks might resume.

The fact that he was up till 5 a.m. working through the issues in a personal, hands-on way, and then he was back at it this morning, should indicate that he believes it is worthwhile...

I think it undermines the effort to move forward when (GOP) leadership talks about the fact that this can’t be done, that it’s too politically risky, and we should wait until 2000 and then sort...

The president just made the point to both of them (Adams and Trimble) that they need to stay at this and work out their differences …

We do want this over with, … but it has to be in a fair way.

I would suggest that if you want to report the story, you start by talking to Mr. Woodward and Mr. Bennett and establish the facts, … Why don’t you start with Mr. Bennett, who, if...

Unfortunately, it didn’t make the first edition of The New York Times. I think the second edition is much more accurate.

And that having gone through it, turn 180 degrees in the other direction and say, it’s so important, it’s so important to this country and it’s so damaging that the president should resign. I think,...

There is no evidence that’s true. And I just think that those who have chosen to make this partisan are misguided. And it doesn’t help put out a single fire to engage in a partisan...

We will look at what is the appropriate level of assistance we can give, whether it be logistical or technical support or other. But I can tell you that there’s been no decision made on...

some perceived political gain here.

The administration will work to ensure that all that have sustained losses in this fire are fully compensated.

While we’ve made great advances in reducing crime overall across the country, the president wants to reinforce the message of how crucial it is that schools are safe and that discipline is restored.

I’ll expect he’ll have some time to relax there and enjoy the wonderful, natural surroundings — the ocean, the beach and potentially some fine golf courses,

We did not expect today to be a day where we had a breakthrough in the process. That is true. I have no breakthrough to report. On the other hand, the process has not broken...

Under the president’s proposal, there is not a provision in there for price controls.

We feel like at this point that we’ve got a good shot.

The only thing I’ll say is that the attorney general made her decision based on the facts, the evidence and the law.

The president believes this is a year to make progress, and doesn’t believe we can afford to take the year off.

Again, it is quite rare and somewhat remarkable when the NRA says something we agree with, but in this case … I think they are speaking the truth.

We’ve been officially reassured at a high level that Russia will not be drawn into the conflict into the Balkans.

We need to see, we need to verify, we need to set up a system of implementation that is precise and will allow us to make sure with our own eyes, based on what we...

We have heard reports of atrocities, and we have clear examples of ethnic cleansing.

I think there is a bipartisan consensus among leaders in the Senate that not enough time has been put forward for this, the process is inadequate.

…Having the intransigent position of the Miami relatives as something that was clear that this was the only alternative for reuniting the boy with his father, … It was done in an appropriate way, it...

there was a willingness to stay in the president’s absence and an unwillingness to let this break down.

We’ve had these conclusions going back to 1996.

All of these issues will be on the table. This is an important issue and it’s important we have addressed it the way we have.