You Are The Most Powerful Cultural Force

When It Comes To Anything That's Social, Whether It's Your Family, Your School, Your Community, Your Business Or Your Country, Winning Is A Team Sport.

Heavy As They Are, The Costs Of Action Must Be Weighed Against The Price Of Inaction. If Saddam Defies The World And We Fail To Respond, We Will Face A Far Greater Threat In The Future. Saddam Will Strike Again At His Neighbors; He Will Make War On His Own People. And Mark My Words, He Will Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction. He Will Deploy Them, And He Will Use Them.

When Galileo Discovered He Could Use The Tools Of Mathematics And Mechanics To Understand The Motion Of Celestial Bodies, He Felt, In The Words Of One Imminent Researcher, That He Had Learned The Language In Which God Recreated The Universe. Today We Are Learning The Language In Which God Created Life. We Are Gaining Ever More Awe For The Complexity, The Beauty, The Wonder Of God's Most Devine And Sacred Gift.

On Earth Day I Made A Commitment To Reduce Our Emissions Of Greenhouse Gases To 1990 Levels By The Year 2000. And I Asked For A Blueprint On How To Achieve This Goal. In Concert With All Other Nations, We Simply Must Halt Global Warming. It Is A Threat To Our Health, To Our Ecology, And To Our Economy. I Know That The Precise Magnitude And Patterns Of Climate Change Cannot Be Fully Predicted. But Global Warming Clearly Is A Growing, Long-term Threat With Profound Consequences. And Make No Mistake About It, It Will Take Decades To Reverse.

I Don't Know In My Long Life That I Ever Worked With Anybody That Has Quite The Combination Of Policy Knowledge And Concern, Political Skills, Of A Personal Touch With People, And A Sense Of Innate Fairness That Inspires Confidence.