The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.