Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

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