I Might Not Have Been President If

Elvis Presley Was The First And The Best. He Is My Favorite Of All Time.

So We, Democrats, Have A Responsibility There, Every One Of Us, Both To Try To Treat The Republicans With Respect And As Human Beings To Try To Work With Them On Every Issue We Can, And Then If Those Cannons Are Fired At Us, We've Got To Stand Up And Fight Back. If You Lay Down And You Look Like A Deer Caught In The Headlights, Then You Will Confirm The Assault. And So We Have To Fight Back.

Rarely Have Americans Lived Through So Much Change, In So Many Ways, In So Short A Time. Quietly, But With Gathering Force, The Ground Has Shifted Beneath Our Feet As We Have Moved Into An Information Age, A Global Economy, A Truly New World.

Tonight, I Propose A 21st Century Crime Bill To Deploy The Latest Technologies And Tactics To Make Our Communities Even Safer. Our Balanced Budget Will Help Put Up To 50,000 More Police On The Street In The Areas Hardest Hit By Crime, And Then To Equip Them With New Tools From Crime-mapping Computers To Digital Mug Shots. We Must Break The Deadly Cycle Of Drugs And Crime.

Supporters Of Capital Punishment Bear A Special Responsibility To Ensure The Fairness Of This Irreversible Punishment.