I'm encouraged in that I believe that both sides expressed a willingness to be more flexible in looking at their own differences,

I am pleased that both sides have agreed to go back to the bargaining table, and I urge them to stay at the table until they reach a settlement, ... The key now is for both parties to find a new way to look at the issues and find the solution.

Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason, but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.

I have yet to go to a grocery store and buy a loaf of bread, and have the clerk tell me since you're a woman, you only have to pay 75 cents and not a dollar,

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

Of greatest concern to me is the relationship of the manufacturing sector to the Asian market and the need to bring stability to that area,