Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of the 105th Congress, distinguished guests, and my fellow Americans: I think I should start by saying thanks...

My fellow Americans, the state of our Union is strong. But now we must rise to the decisive moment, to make a nation and a world better than any we...

The spirit we bring to our work will make all the difference. We must be committed to the pursuit of opportunity for all Americans, responsibility from...

First, we must move quickly to complete the unfinished business of our country, to balance the budget, renew our democracy, and finish the job of welfare...

In 2 days I will propose a detailed plan to balance the budget by 2002. This plan will balance the budget and invest in our people while protecting...

Whatever our differences, we should balance the budget now. And then, for the long-term health of our society, we must agree to a bipartisan process...

Our second piece of unfinished business requires us to commit ourselves tonight, before the eyes of America, to finally enacting bipartisan campaign...

There is a third piece of unfinished business. Over the last 4 years, we moved a record 2 1/4 million people off the welfare rolls. Then last year,...

Now I challenge every State, turn those welfare checks into private sector paychecks. I challenge every religious congregation, every community nonprofit,...

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it. But no one can walk out of this Chamber with a clear conscience unless you...

Now, looking ahead, the greatest step of all, the high threshold of the future we must now cross, and my number one priority for the next 4 years is...

My balanced budget makes an unprecedented commitment to these goals, $51 billion next year. But far more than money is required. I have a plan, a call...

Raising standards will not be easy, and some of our children will not be able to meet them at first. The point is not to put our children down but to...

Second, to have the best schools, we must have the best teachers. Most of us in this Chamber would not be here tonight without the help of those teachers;...

This leads to the fourth principle: Learning begins in the first days of life. Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally...

Fifth, every State should give parents the power to choose the right public school for their children. Their right to choose will foster competition...

Seventh, we cannot expect our children to raise themselves up in schools that are literally falling down. With the student population at an all-time...

Ninth, in the 21st century, we must expand the frontiers of learning across a lifetime. All our people, of whatever age, must have the chance to learn...

That is my plan, a call to action for American education. Some may say that it is unusual for a President to pay this kind of attention to education....

To prepare America for the 21st century, we must harness the powerful forces of science and technology to benefit all Americans. This is the first State...

We must build the second generation of the Internet so that our leading universities and national laboratories can communicate in speeds 1,000 times...

We must continue to explore the heavens, pressing on with the Mars probes and the international space station, both of which will have practical applications...

Since I took office, funding for AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health has increased dramatically to $1.5 billion. With new resources,...

We must continue, step by step, to give more families access to affordable, quality health care. Forty million Americans still lack health insurance....

Just as we ended drive-through deliveries of babies last year, we must now end the dangerous and demeaning practice of forcing women home from the hospital...

Finally, we must also protect our children by standing firm in our determination to ban the advertising and marketing of cigarettes that endanger their...

This balanced budget includes the largest antidrug effort ever, to stop drugs at their source, punish those who push them, and teach our young people...

We must protect our environment in every community. In the last 4 years, we cleaned up 250 toxic waste sites, as many as in the previous 12. Now we...

We must also protect our global environment, working to ban the worst toxic chemicals and to reduce the greenhouse gases that challenge our health even...

Our national service program, AmeriCorps, has already helped 70,000 young people to work their way through college as they serve America. Now we intend...

To prepare America for the 21st century, we must master the forces of change in the world and keep American leadership strong and sure for an uncharted...

Second, America must look to the East no less than to the West. Our security demands it. Americans fought three wars in Asia in this century. Our prosperity...

The American people must prosper in the global economy. We've worked hard to tear down trade barriers abroad so that we can create good jobs at home....

We need not shrink from the challenge of the global economy. After all, we have the best workers and the best products. In a truly open market, we can...

We should all be proud that America led the effort to rescue our neighbor Mexico from its economic crisis. And we should all be proud that last month...

With American leadership, the killing has stopped in Bosnia. Now the habits of peace must take hold. The new NATO force will allow reconstruction and...

Now we must rise to a new test of leadership, ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention. Make no mistake about it. It will make our troops safer from...

We must also renew our commitment to America's diplomacy and pay our debts and dues to international financial institutions like the World Bank and...

Almost exactly 50 years ago, in the first winter of the cold war, President Truman stood before a Republican Congress and called upon our country to...

America has always been a nation of immigrants. From the start, a steady stream of people in search of freedom and opportunity have left their own lands...

We're not there yet. We still see evidence of abiding bigotry and intolerance in ugly words and awful violence, in burned churches and bombed buildings....

I want to say a word about two other Americans who show us how. Congressman Frank Tejeda was buried yesterday, a proud American whose family came from...

Reverend Schuller, Congressman Tejeda, Governor Locke, along with Kristen Tanner and Chris Getsler, Sue Winski and Dr. Kristen Zarfos, they're all Americans...

We don't have a moment to waste. Tomorrow there will be just over 1,000 days until the year 2000; 1,000 days to prepare our people; 1,000 days to work...