I ask you to extend that law to cover 10 million more workers and to give parents time off when they have to go see their children s teachers or take them to the doctor. Last year I co-hosted the very first White House conference on child care with one of our foremost experts America s first lady. Crime Violent crime is down. Robbery is down. Assault is down.
Burglary is down.
For five years in a row, all across America. Now, we need to finish the job of putting 100,000 more police on our streets. For 50 years, NATO contained communism and kept America and Europe secure. Now these three formerly communist countries have said yes to democracy. We saw children playing in the streets, where two years ago they were hiding from snipers and shells.