US Presidency
1993

We've begun the long overdue renovation of the American economic base. The question now, unlike 100 days ago, the question is now not whether we're going to reduce the deficit but how and how much. The question now is not whether the Government will have a new partnership with the private sector to shape the economy but exactly what the details will be and how much our part will be. We've also taken on the issue of health care, something million of Americans cried out for last year. I got a letter today from a young woman I shook hands with whose, literally, her life is on the line, and she can not get health insurance. It is wrong that in this Nation, we are the only advanced country in the world with 34 million people without health insurance. It is wrong that millions of Americans can not change their jobs without losing their health insurance because they or a child or a spouse has been sick.