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CLINTON/RODHAM PROMISES DATE CARRIED/BROKEN
1. Vote for me and we will produce more natural gas in Texas
Dallas Morning News - Jan. 11, 1992
2. The West should establish a $6 Billion fund to help stablize
the Russian Ruble. - New York City, April 1, 1992
3. I will streamline the federal government and change the way it
works, cut 100,000 bureaucrats and put 100,000 new police officers
on the streets of American cities. - New York City - July, 1992
4. I promise I will never bash public employees. - Dallas Morning
News - June 18, 1992
5. I would want the first judge I appoint to believe in the right to
privacy and the right to choose - PBS, July 7, 1992
6. [What] would work is to raise the top tax rate on people with gross
incomes above $200,000 to 35 percent or 36 percent and put a surtax
on people with incomes of a million dollars or more a year. - Time,
July 20, 1992
7. We should pay up - and pay now - the past dues we owe to the U.N. -
New York City, April 1, 1992
8. If I become president, we will keep a glatt kosher kitchen in the
White House - New York City, April 1, 1992
9. Under our health care system, all Americans will have access to quality
and affordable healthcare through coverage from their employer, or if
they're unemployed, through their government. - Jersey City, N.J., Oct.
29, 1992
10. I want a leaner bureaucracy and more investment - Time, July 20, 1992
11. A national apprenticeship program for non-college bound people, so they
can get good jobs, fully fund Head Start. - Face the Nation (CBS)
October 6, 1992.
12. To the fathers who have chosen to abandon their children by neglecting
their child support; Take responsibility for your children or we will
force you to do so. - New York City, July 16, 1992.
13. U.S.(NATO) troop levels can be safely reduced to a force in the range of
75,000 to 100,000. - Europe, October, 1992
14. As soon as the Pentagon issued a study which said there is no basis in
national security for discriminating based on the sexual orientation of
Americans who wish to serve in the military, I said I would act on this
study. - Los Angelas, Ca. May 18, 1992.
15. I am going to send Al Gore to Capitol Hill to take the lead in passing
our program for the first 100 days of the new administration. - Little
Rock, Ark, July, 1992.
16. I would bring in all the players within the first 60 days to tell them
to develop a national healthcare plan. - Dallas Morning News, Oct. 7, 1992.
17. The Clinton-Gore administration will view the support of generic
industrial technologies as a priority mission. - Clinton's "Technology:
The Engine of Economic Growth", issued Sept., 1992.
18. My first priority would be to pass a jobs program, to introduce it on the
first day I was inaugurated. - St. Louis, Mo. Oct. 11, 1992.
19. My plan offers $50 billion in new investments over the next four years -
new incentives for the private sector, an investment tax credit, urban
enterprise zones, new business tax incentives and others. - Arizona
Republic, June 28, 1992.
20. At the very least, 10% of the $76 billion that the government now spends
each year on research should be redirected from the Pentagons research
budget to civil efforts. - "Technology: The Engine of Economic Growth"
21. We can give you a country again where we are pro-growth and pro-environ-
ment. Where we are pro-business and pro-labor, where we are pro civil
rights and pro civil order, where we are pro-family and pro-choice. -
Portland Oregonian, July 26, 1992.
22. When it comes to AIDS, there should be a Manhattan Project. - L.A. Cal.,
May 18, 1992.
23. We can pledge right now that for every dollar we reduce the defense
budget on Research and development, we'll increase the civilian R&D
budget by the same amount. - Georgetown University, Nov. 20, 1992.
24. I want to increase federal funding for research, prevention and
treatment [for AIDS] - Jersey City, N.J., Oct. 29, 1992.
25. I support a strong American role in the U.N. and with the European
Community to end Serbian aggression, I have supported the use of multi-
lateral military force, if necessary. - Europe, October, 1992
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26. My administration will stand up for democracy and butress democratic
forces in Haiti, Peru, and throughout the Western Hemisphers. - A.P.
Aug. 14, 1992.
27. We need not just a new generation of leadership, but a new gender of
leadership. This is a minority I enjoy being in. - Phoenix Gazette,
July 15, 1992.
28. Those who can [after two years on welfare] will have to go to work,
either by taking a job in the private sector or through community
service. - "Putting People First"
29. The United States should lead the fight to slow global warming, instead
of dragging our feet and ignoring important scientific data. - NYC,
April 1, 1992.
30. I want to appoint one person, one man or woman, to oversee and coordinate
all federal efforts related to this issue [AIDS]. - Jersey City, Oct, 1992.
31. A Clinton-Gore Administration will not permit American firms again to
sell technologies to outlaw states like Iraq. - August 14, 1992.
32. I certainly will give every consideration to Hispanic candidates for the
Supreme Court. - Dallas Morning News, July 2, 1992.
33. The old adage, "Mi Casa, su casa" will be true when my house is the White
House. - Dallas Morning News, July 2, 1992.
34. All the money by which we reduce defense research and development I will
put immediately into domestic, commercial research and development. -
Dallas Morning News, August 16, 1992.
35. I will elavate economics, create an Economic Security Council similar to
the National Security Council. - Los Angelas, Aug. 13, 1992.
36. My administration will reduce our forces, but maintain a credible
presence in Europe and Asia. - Portland Oregonian, September 1, 1992.
37. I want people like some of you in this audience to be part of the Clinton
Administration, not because of or in spite of your sexual orientation,
but because America needs you. - L.A. May 18, 1992.
38. You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any
country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.
- Portland Oregonian, July 26, 1992.
39. If I become president, I will have a cabinet that looks like America. -
Portland Oregonian, July 26, 1992.
40. After this election is over, I will continue to reach out to the American
people. I'll get back on the bus when I am president. I'll go back
and have town meetings, and let ordinary people ask me questions. I
will not hide behind the walls of the White House. - AP, Sept, 1992.
41. My strategy puts people first by investing more than $50 billion each
year over the next four years to put America back to work-the most
dramatic growth program since World War II. - AP., June 22, 1992.
42. With the dwindling Soviet threat, we can cut defense spending by over
a third by 1997. - Georgetown University, November 20, 1991.
43. I propose that the U.S. must take the lead in putting together a bridge
loan to help Russia make the transition from its old system to its new
economy. - NYC, April, 1992.
44. Middle-class tax payers will have a choice between a childrens tax credit
or a significant reduction in their income tax rate. - "Putting People
First"
45. Vote for me and we will conserve energy all over America. - Dallas Morning
News, January 11, 1992.
46. We'll restore the dignity of blue collar work by guaranteeing an appren-
ticeship program to every non-college bound student in America. - San
Diego, June 15, 1992.
47. We will link China's trade priveleges to its human rights record and its
conduct on trade and weapons sales. - L.A. Cal. Aug. 13, 1992.
48. We'll seek to raise the average goal for automakers to 45 miles per
gallon. - Philadelphis, April 22, 1992.
49. We'll pass a national bottle bill to encourage recycling by creating
small deposits on all glass and plastic bottles. - Philadelphis, April,
1992.
50. I WILL NOT RAISE TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS TO PAY FOR THESE PROGRAMS. -
East Lansing, MI., October 19, 1992.
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