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At The Dawn Of The 21st Century, A Free People Must Now Choose To Shape The Forces Of The Information Age And The Global Society, To Unleash The Limitless Potential Of All Our People, And Yes, To Form A More Perfect Union.

-William J. Clinton

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At The Dawn Of The 21st Century, A Free People Must Now Choose To Shape The Forces Of The Information Age And The Global Society, To Unleash The Limitless Potential Of All Our People, And Yes, To Form A More Perfect Union.

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You Can't Be Involved In Modern American Politics Without Somebody Attacking You.

American Politics

To Realize The Full Possibilities Of This Economy, We Must Reach Beyond Our Own Borders, To Shape The Revolution That Is Tearing Down Barriers And Building New Networks Among Nations And Individuals, And Economies And Cultures: Globalization. It's The Central Reality Of Our Time.

This Will Arguably Be The Third Great Revolution Of America, If We Can Prove That We Literally Can Live Without Having A Dominant European Culture.

Poverty, Discrimination, And Ignorance Restrict Growth.

I Think The Country Could Be Spared A Lot Of Agony And The Government Could Worry About Inflation And A Lot Of Other Problems If [nixon Would] Go On And Resign. [there Is] No Question That An Admission Of Making False Statements To Government Officials And Interfering With The Fbi And The Cia Is An Impeachable Offense.

Anyone Can Want Something; It's Those Who Believe In Their Goals That Achieve.

The Economy Has Produced 6.1 Million Jobs Since I Became President, And If Michael Jordan Comes Back To The Bulls, It Will Be 6,100,001 Jobs.

Every Tax Cut I Call For Is Targeted, It's Responsible And It Is Paid For Within My Balanced Budget Plan. My Tax Cuts Will Not Undermine Our Economy. They Will Speed Economic Growth.

Palestinians Are A Hard-working And An Incredible Community. They Have Done Remarkably Well Outside Their Country. I Have Never Met A Poor Palestinian In The United States; Every Palestinian I Know Is A College Professor Or A Doctor.

Behind Every Great Man There Stands A Great Woman. Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Behind.

Behind Every Great Man

The Light May Be Fading On The 20th Century, But The Sun Is Still Rising On America.

President Obama Has Offered A Plan With 4 Trillion Dollars In Debt Reduction Over A Decade, With Two And A Half Dollars Of Spending Reductions For Every One Dollar Of Revenue Increases, And Tight Controls On Future Spending. It's The Kind Of Balanced Approach Proposed By The Bipartisan Simpson-bowles Commission.

Global Poverty Is A Powder Keg That Could Be Ignited By Our Indifference.

We Should Make It A Crime Even To Attempt To Pollute. Our Children Should Grow Up Next To Parks, Not Poison.

[americans Know] The Traditional Values Of Islam, Devotion To Faith And Good Works, To Family And Society, Are In Harmony With The Best Of American Ideals.

We Are More Connected Than Ever Before, More Able To Spread Our Ideas And Beliefs, Our Anger And Fears. As We Exercise The Right To Advocate Our Views, And As We Animate Our Supporters, We Must All Assume Responsibility For Our Words And Actions Before They Enter A Vast Echo Chamber And Reach Those Both Serious And Delirious, Connected And Unhinged.

The Greatest Progress We Have Made, And The Greatest Progress We Have Yet To Make, Is In The Human Heart. In The End, All The World's Wealth And A Thousand Armies Are No Match For The Strength And Decency Of The Human Spirit.

From Bill Clinton Speech- People Are More Impressed By The Power Of Our Example Rather Than The Example Of Our Power.

Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music And Arts Programs. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Do Math. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Read. And Most Important Of All, They're A Lot Of Fun.

We Should Set A National Goal Of Making Computers And Internet Access Available For Every American . . . We Must Help All Americans Gain The Skills They Need To Make The Most Of The Connection.

Internet Access

Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility. If Our World Is To Meet The Challenges Of The Twenty-first Century We Must Harness The Energy And Creativity Of All Our Citizens.

When You're President, The Democrats Got To Feel Good When They Walk In The Door If You're A Republican; If You're A Democrat, The Republican Has To Feel Like You're Listening. And You Should Be Listening.

It's The Economy, Stupid.

Old Or Young, Healthy As A Horse Or A Person With A Disability That Hasn't Kept You Down, Man Or Woman, Native American, Native Born, Immigrant, Straight Or Gay - Whatever; The Test Ought To Be I Believe In The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights And The Declaration Of Independence. I Believe In Religious Liberty. I Believe In Freedom Of Speech. I Believe In Working Hard And Playing By The Rules. I'm Showing Up For Work Tomorrow. I'm Building That Bridge To The 21st Century. That Ought To Be The Test.

I Might Not Be The Same, But That's Not Important/no Freedom Till We're Equal, Damn Right I Support It

You Should Have Disagreements With Your Leaders And Your Colleagues, But If It Becomes Immediately A Question Of Questioning People's Motives, And If Immediately You Decide That Somebody Who Sees A Whole New Situation Differently Than You Must Be A Bad Person And Somehow Twisted Inside, We Are Not Going To Get Very Far In Forming A More Perfect Union.

Food Is A Big Bargain In America, And You Can Go To These Places, We All Like Them, And You Get Big Portions, And They Taste Good. But They're Higher In Fat Than Ever Before. And Same Thing Has Happened, By The Way, Though, To School Menus. A Lot Of School Lunch Menus Have More Fat And More Sugar Than Ever Before.

The Problem With Ideology Is If You Got An Ideology, You Already Got Your Mind Made Up, You Know All The Answers, And That Makes Evidence Irrelevant And Argument A Waste Of Time, So You Tend To Govern By Assertion And Attack. The Problem With That Is That Discourages Thinking And Gives You Bad Results.

Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

Democracy Does Not Have To Be A Bloodsport, It Can Be An Honorable Enterprise That Advances The Public Interest.

Since I Don't Have Access To The White House Pastry Chef Anymore, It's Done Wonders For My Figure.

It Appears That Some School Officials, Teachers, And Parents Have Assumed That Religious Expression Of Any Type Is Either Inappropriate Or Forbidden Altogether In Public Schools; However, Nothing In The First Amendment Converts Our Public Schools Into Religion-free Zones.

Indeed, I Did Have A Relationship With Miss Lewinsky That Was Not Appropriate. In Fact, It Was Wrong.

When I Started Out In Public Life There Used To Be A Saying We'd Hear From Time To Time, That Every Man Who Runs For Public Office Will Claim That He Was Born In A Log Cabin He Built With His Own Hands. Well, My Mother Knew Better. And She Made Sure I Did Too.

People Like Change In General, But Not In Particular.

Only The Police Should Have Handguns.

Nafta Means Jobs. American Jobs, And Good Paying American Jobs. If I Didn't Believe That, I Wouldn't Support This Agreement.

I Liked Working With Republicans. We Had Five Pretty Good Years After We Had That Bad Year In '95 That Culminated In Two Government Shutdowns. But Then They Really Decided That They Liked Being In The Majority For The First Time In Forty Years, And They Wanted To Get Some Things Done, And I Agreed, To Get Things I Wanted. It Was All Perfectly Transparent. Everybody Knew What They Wanted And What I Wanted.

. . . Unfortunately, We Can't Control The Actions Of Everyone.

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.

Mass Destruction

We Cannot Become The World's Policeman, But Where Our Values And Our Interests Are At Stake, And Where We Can Make A Difference, We Must Act And We Must Lead. That Is Our Job And We Are Better, Stronger And Safer Because We Are Doing It.

Making A Difference

Torture Must Only Be Hypothetical Exception, Not Us Policy.

People Can Quarrel With Whether We Should Have More Troops In Afghanistan Or Internationalize Iraq Or Whatever, But It Is Incontestable That On The Day I Left Office, There Were Unaccounted For Stocks Of Biological And Chemical Weapons.

Health Care's Complicated, Can Be Misrepresented, It's Personal, It Can Spark Fear, It's Expensive, And The People Who Have Got The Money Want To Keep It.

India.. A Perfectly Wonderful Country, May Have Been Motivated By A Lack Of Self-esteem.

After Years Of Denial And Deception, The Philip Morris Company Has Admitted That Cigarette Smoking Causes Lung Cancer And Other Diseases. This Formal Acknowledgment Comes Far Too Late But Still We Must All Welcome It. It Can Be The Beginning Of Clearing The Air.

I Have Never Had Sexual Relations With Monica Lewinsky. I've Never Had An Affair With Her.

I'm Sorry, Could You Please Tell Me What The Definition Of The Word "is" Is?

It Takes A Long Time To Turn A Big Country Around. Just Be Of Good Cheer And Keep Working On It.

There's Never A Perfect Bipartisan Bill In The Eyes Of A Partisan.

We Should Stay On The Right Track To The 21st Century. Opportunity Alone Is Not Enough. I Want To Build An America In The 21st Century In Which All Americans Take Personal Responsibility For Themselves, Their Families, Their Communities And Their Country.

Justice May Be Blind, But We All Know That Diversity In The Courts, As In All Aspects Of Society, Sharpens Our Vision And Makes Us A Stronger Nation.

All Americans, Not Only In The States Most Heavily Affected But In Every Place In This Country, Are Rightly Disturbed By The Large Numbers Of Illegal Aliens Entering Our Country. The Jobs They Hold Might Otherwise Be Held By Citizens Or Legal Immigrants. The Public Services They Use Impose Burdens On Our Taxpayers. That's Why Our Administration Has Moved Aggressively To Secure Our Borders More By Hiring A Record Number Of New Border Guards, By Deporting Twice As Many Criminal Aliens As Ever Before, By Cracking Down On Illegal Hiring, By Barring Welfare Benefits To Illegal Aliens.

I Think We Need To Push Harder, We The Democrats, Because It's An Open Door For The Republicans - Prosperity Centers.

Our Democracy Must Be Not Only The Envy Of The World But The Engine Of Our Own Renewal. There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured By What Is Right With America.

If You Wanted To Create Jobs In A Way That Has Minimal Effect On The Deficit But Has Government Action, The Two Best Things You Could Do Are The Infrastructure Bank And A Simple Sba-like Loan Guarantee For All Building Retrofits, Where The Contractor Or The Energy-service Company Guarantees The Savings. So That Allows The Bank To Loan Money To Let A School Or A College Or A Hospital Or A Museum Or A Commercial Building Unencumbered By Debt To Loan It On Terms That Are Longer, So You Can Pay It Back Only From Your Utility Savings. You Could Create A Million Jobs Doing That.

America's Greatness Depends On The Ability Of Its Citizens To Make The Most Of Their Lives. Americans With Disabilities Are An Enormous, Often Untapped Reservoir Of That Potential.

I Have Never Seen . . . So Slippery, So Disgusting A Candidate.

I Want The Ability To Monitor High-tech Communications Among Far-flung Terrorists. I Want To Be Able To Have Our People Learn Their Plans Before They Strike. That's The Key.

I Think The Democrats Are Going To Have To Be Willing To Give Up, Maybe, Some Short-term Political Gain By Whipping Up Fears On Some Of These Things - If It's A Reasonable Social Security Proposal, A Reasonable Medicare Proposal. We've Got To Deal With These Things. You Cannot Have Health Care Devour The Economy.

I Haven't Eaten At A Mcdonald's Since I Became President.

President Obama's Approach Embodies The Values, The Ideas And The Direction America Has To Take To Build The 21st-century Version Of The American Dream: A Nation Of Shared Opportunities, Shared Responsibilities, Shared Prosperity, A Shared Sense Of Community.

Sharing In God's Blessings Is At The Heart Of Thanksgiving And At The Core Of The American Spirit.

I Mean, If President Reagan Could Be An Actor And Become A President, If Michael Douglas Is Your Next Choice, Maybe I Could Become An Actor. And I've Got A Good Pension; I Can Work Cheap, Which Is Unusual Around Here.

Hope I Lived Up To My Reputation For Being Slick.

I Don't Think I Would Have Become President If It Were Not For My School Music Program.

You Cannot Have An Integrated World And Have Your Say All The Time. America Can Lead The World Towards That, But We Cannot Dominate And Run The World In That Direction. There Is A Big Difference.

[illegal Immigration] Costs The Taxpayers Of The United States A Lot Of Money. And It's Unfair To Americans Who Are Working Every Day To Pay Their Own Bills. It's Also Unfair To A Lot Of People Who Have Waited In Line For Years And Years In Other Countries To Be Legal Immigrants.

When I Was In England, I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two, And I Didnt Like It, And I Didnt Inhale, And I Never Tried Again.

I Think That The Responsibility That The Democrats Had May Rest More In Resisting Any Efforts By Republicans In The Congress, Or By Me When I Was President, To Put Some Standards And Tighten Up A Little On Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac.

To The Extent That Our Workers Compete With Low-paid Mexicans, It Is As Much Through Undocumented Immigration As Trade. This Pattern Threatens Low-paid, Low-skill U.s. Workers. The Combination Of Domestic Reforms And Nafta-related Growth In Mexico Will Keep More Mexicans At Home. It Is Likely That A Reduction In Immigration Will Increase The Real Wages Of Low-skilled Urban And Rural Workers In The United States.

We Can't Afford To Lose Control Of Our Own Borders Or To Take On New Financial Burdens At A Time When We Are Not Adequately Providing For The Jobs, The Health Care And The Education Of Our Own People.

Government Is Not The Problem, And Government Is Not The Solution. We - The American People - We Are The Solution.

It Is Time To Stop Personal Destruction And Prying Into Private Lives

Though Our Challenges Are Fearsome, So Are Our Strengths. Americans Have Ever Been A Relentless, Questioning, Hopeful People.

We Must Work Tirelessly To Make Sure That Every Boy And Girl In America Who Is Up For Adoption Has A Family Waiting To Reach Him Or Her...this Is A Season Of Miracles, And Perhaps There Is No Greater Miracle Than Finding A Loving Home For A Child Who Needs One.

A Great Democracy Doesn't Make It Harder To Vote Than To Buy An Assault Weapon.

Assault Weapons

If You Come From A Wealthy Country With Open Borders, Unless You Seriously Believe You Can Kill, Imprison Or Occupy All Your Enemies, You Have To Make A World With More Friends And Fewer Enemies - With More Partners And Fewer Terrorists.

The Stimulus Is Our Bridge Over Troubled Waters. And If It's Invested Well, It'll Generate A Lot Of Economic Growth, And We'll Get Quite A Bit Of The Revenues Back.

If You Believe In Making Change From The Bottom Up, If You Believe The Measure Of Change Is How Many People's Lives Are Better, You Know It's Hard And Some People Think It's Boring. Speeches Like This Are Fun, Actually Doing The Work Is Hard.

Islam Is One Of The Fastest-growing Faiths Within America, And America Needs To Show That We're Not Anti-islam. We Are For, For People Being Free And Having Opportunity Everywhere, That... We Did That In Bosnia, We Did That In Kosovo, We Did That In Numerous Other Places In The World.

It Depends Upon What The Meaning Of The Word 'is' Is.

Our New Immigrants Must Be Part Of Our One America. After All, They're Revitalizing Our Cities, They're Energizing Our Culture, They're Building Up Our Economy. We Have A Responsibility To Make Them Welcome Here, And They Have A Responsibility To Enter The Mainstream Of American Life. That Means Learning English And Learning About Our Democratic System Of Government. There Are Now Long Waiting Lines Of Immigrants That Are Trying To Do Just That. Therefore, Our Budget Significantly Expands Our Efforts To Help Them Meet Their Responsibility. I Hope You Will Support It.

American And Israel Share A Special Bond. Our Relationship Is Unique Among All Nations. Like America, Israel Is A Strong Democracy, A Symbol Of Freedom, And An Oasis Of Liberty, A Home To The Oppressed And Persecuted.

And I'd Like To Say To The Senate, I Hope You Will Say Yes To A Stronger American Democracy In The Year 2000.

If You Voluntarily Quit In The Face Of Adversity, You'll Wonder About It For The Rest Of Your Life.

But The Truth Is, Countries Have To Do What Is Best In Each Instance To Pursue Both Their Interest And Their Values.

People Ought To Be Going Over This, Finding Things They Don't Like. Congress Has Clearly Proved They Can Act In A Hurry. If There's Something Wrong With It, It Can Be Amended. If Something Needs To Be Kicked In, It Can Be Put In. If Something Needs To Be Taken Out, It Can Be Taken Out.

Democracies Don't Go To War Against Each Other, And By And Large They Don't Sponsor Terrorism. They're More Likely To Respect The Environment And Human Rights And Social Justice. It's No Accident That Most Of The Terrorists Come From Non-democratic Countries.

When Personal Freedom's Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It.

There Is A Government Within The Government Who Controll This And I Do Not Controll It

Any Poll Is A Picture Of An Unfinished Horse Race Except The Election Day Polls.

We Must Fortify African Democracy And Peace By Launching Radio Democracy For Africa, Supporting The Transition To Democracy Now Beginning To Take Place In Nigeria.

When You Stifle Human Potential, When You Don't Invest In New Ideas, It Doesn't Just Cut Off The People Who Are Affected; It Hurts Us All.

We Are On The Right Track To The 21st Century. We Are On The Right Track, But Our Work Is Not Finished. What Should We Do? First, Let Us Consider How To Proceed. I Say The Question Is No Longer, "who's To Blame?" But "what To Do?"

We're Going To Build The Bridge To The 21st Century, We Have To Make Our Children Free - Free Of The Vise Grip Of Guns And Gangs And Drugs; Free To Build Lives Of Hope.

It Simply Doesn't Make Any Sense For Us To Have Illegal Aliens In Our Custody In Our Courts And Then Let Them Go Back To Living Here Illegally. That's Wrong And We Should Stop It.

I Might Not Have Been President If It Hadn't Been For School Music. Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music Programs.

There Seems To Be No Mainframe Explanation For The Pc World In Which We're Living.

Running Helps Me Stay On An Even Keel And In An Optimistic Frame Of Mind.

Being President Is A Little Like Being The Grounds-keeper At A Cemetery: There's Plenty Of People Below You But No One's Listening.

When I Think About The World I Would Like To Leave To My Daughter And The Grandchildren I Hope To Have, It Is A World That Moves Away From Unequal, Unstable, Unsustainable Interdependence To Integrated Communities - Locally, Nationally And Globally - That Share The Characteristics Of All Successful Communities.

I Hate It When People Blame Someone Else And Don't Take Responsibility.

I Pledge That I Have No Intention Of Raising Taxes In My Second Term.

Our Campaign Is The Opposite Of 'competence.'

Though Government Has An Important Role To Play In Meeting The Many Challenges That Remain Before Us, We Are Coming To Understand That No Organization, Including Government, Will Fully Succeed Without The Active Participation Of Each Of Us. Volunteers Are Vital To Enabling This Country To Live Up To The True Promise Of Its Heritage

Nobody Is Right All The Time And Even A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day.

What's A Man Got To Do To Get In The Top Fifty?

When You're President, You Have More Power To Help More People, But You Also Are The Prisoner Of Circumstances As Well, And Countervailing Political Forces More.

Let Me Be Clear: We Are Still A Nation Of Immigrants, And We Honor All Those Immigrants Who Are Working Hard To Become New Citizens.

I Came Of Age Believing That, No Matter What Happened, I Would Always Be Able To Support Myself.

We Simply Have To Transition From An Economy Based Almost Exclusively On Oil And Coal And Natural Gas To One That's Far More Diversified, That Uses Solar Energy, And Wind Energy, And The Power Of The Tides, And Bio-mass Energy, And Eventually, Develops Hydrogen.

I Still Believe In A Place Called Hope.

A Few Months Ago, And Again This Week, Bin Laden Publicly Vowed To Publicly Wage A Terrorist War Against America, Saying, And I Quote, "we Do Not Differentiate Between Those Dressed In Military Uniforms And Civilians. They're All Targets." Their Mission Is Murder, And Their History Is Bloody.

I Figured If I Could Get Really Good People Who Were Going To Be Able To Have A Big Impact In The World Over The Next Decade To Come Together Once A Year For Ten Years And Actually Sign A Pledge To Take Action Themselves, If We Did That Every Year For Ten Years We Could Do A Lot Of Good In The World. That's The Difference Between My Meeting And Any Other. If You Don't Want To Promise To Do Something, Don't Come To My Meeting, Stay Home.

When People Are Feeling Insecure, They'd Rather Have Someone Who Is Strong And Wrong Rather Than Somebody Who Is Weak And Right.

If You Want To Know Where I Come By The Passionate Commitment I Have To Bringing People Together Without Regard To Race, It All Started With My Grandfather.

I Got A Letter From 13-year-old Ryan From Belfast. Now, Ryan, If You're Out In The Crowd Tonight, Here's The Answer To Your Question. No, As Far As I Know, An Alien Spacecraft Did Not Crash In Roswell, New Mexico, In 1947. And, Ryan, If The United States Air Force Did Recover Alien Bodies, They Didn't Tell Me About It, Either, And I Want To Know.

First, I Worry About Climate Change. It's The Only Thing That I Believe Has The Power To Fundamentally End The March Of Civilization As We Know It, And Make A Lot Of The Other Efforts That We're Making Irrelevant And Impossible.

More People Can Be Great Leaders Than Think They Can, But They Need A Purpose Greater Than Themselves.

Technology Really Has Turned Out To Be A Wonderful Thing. . . . So Americans Really Are Tuning In In Positive Ways On The Internet.

Over The Past 7 Years, We've Tried To Modernize The Economy, And Today What We're Doing Is Modernizing The Financial Services Industry, Tearing Down These Antiquated Walls, And Granting Banks Significant New Authority.

People Should Really Take Care When They Vote, And Pay More Attention To What People Say They're Going To Do - Instead Of Just How They Feel About How Things Are Going.

My Only Enemy Is Right-wing Religious Fundamentalism.

I Will Never Let Israel Down.

A Parent May Be Without A Job, But No Child Should Be Without A Doctor.

The Most Profound Security Threat We Face Today Is Global Warming....climate Change Has The Capacity To Change The Way All Of Us Live.

Character Doesn't Matter.

Even If It Takes Changing The Law, The President Should Honor The Commitment The Federal Government Made To Those People And Let Them Keep What They Got.

We Are A Nation Of Immigrants. But We Are Also A Nation Of Laws. It Is Wrong And Ultimately Self-defeating For A Nation Of Immigrants To Permit The Kind Of Abuse Of Our Immigration Laws We Have Seen In Recent Years, And We Must Do More To Stop It.

My Fellow Americans, We Can Only Build Our Bridge To The 21st Century If We Build It Together, And If We're Willing To Walk Arm-in-arm Across That Bridge Together.

Let's Create An Integrated Global Community Where We Have Shared Benefits And Responsibilities, And We Don't Fight Because Of Our Differences.

Presidents Are Not Permitted To Have Personal Feelings.

I've Gained First Hand Knowledge Of The Challenges Faced By People With Disabilities. It's Made Me Understand That Those Of Us Who Have Full Use Of Our Physical Faculties Owe An Enormous Amount Of Respect And Sensitivity To People Who Don't.

Throughout His Many Years, He Enriched The Lives Of Countless Others And Served As A Model Of Generosity And Discipline To Those He Met, Fostering An Atmosphere Of Compassion, Harmony, And Unity. Sri Chinmoy Was A Leader, Humanitarian, Artist, Athlete, And Public Servant Who Will Be Sorely Missed. His Legacy Of Kindness, Reflection, And Resolve Will Endure For Many Years To Come.

Demand That Your Government Pays More Attention. It's Immoral That People In Africa Die Like Flies Of Diseases That No One Dies Of In The United States. And The More Disease There Is, The More Political Unrest There Will Be, Leading To More Darfurs, Which The U.s. Will Have To Pay To Fix.

Downsizing Budgets May Be Necessary, But Downsizing Dreams Is A Decision To Be Disappointed.

We Respect The Individual Conscience Of Every American On The Painful Issue Of Abortion, But Believe As A Matter Of Law That This Decision Should Be Left To A Woman, Her Conscience, Her Doctor And Her God. But Abortion Should Not Only Be Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman, Miss Lewinsky. I Never Told Anybody To Lie, Not A Single Time - Never. These Allegations Are False.

Well, First Of All, I Think That A Lot Of The Voters Who Are Voting For The Tea Party Candidates Have Really Good Impulses. That Is, They Believe That For Years And Years And Years, The People With Wealth And Power Or Government Power Have Done Well And Ordinary People Have Not. That's True.

We Have To Change The Whole Job Structure Of America. We Have Got To Basically Reorient Our Economy Toward The Future.

I Think Actually That The Speech Work I Do Is Fine. It's Important, Because I Try To Help People Think About What's Going On And Organize Their Lives Accordingly.

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman

The Reagan-bush Years Have Exalted Private Gain Over Public Obligation, Special Interests Over The Common Good, Wealth And Fame Over Work And Family. The 1980s Ushered In A Gilded Age Of Greed And Selfishness, Of Irresponsibility And Excess, And Of Neglect.

We Are Moving People From Welfare To Work. On Welfare, We Launch A Quiet Revolution.

I Am Trying To Be Honest With You And It Hurts Me. Now.

To Avoid Having Bad Things Happen, Learning To Manage Your Anger And To Actually Share How You Really Feel About Something, And Get It Behind You Is One Of The Most Important Aspects Of Growing Up.

Never Tell Anyone To Go To Hell Unless You Can Make 'em Go.

The Future Is Not An Inheritance, It Is An Opportunity And An Obligation.

Our Generation, Like The One Before Us, Must Choose. Without The Threat Of The Cold War, Without The Pain Of Economic Ruin, Without The Fresh Memory Of World War Ii's Slaughter, It Is Tempting To Pursue Our Private Agendas -- To Simply Sit Back And Let History Unfold. We Must Resist The Temptation.

Music Can Give You Your Dreams. It Will Teach You Hard Work, It Will Break Your Heart And Make You So Happy, You Can't Stand It. . . .i Don't Think I'd Have Been President If It Hadn't Been For Music.

I Think It's Very Important, And I Think That What Young People Will Learn From My Experience Is That Even Presidents Have To Do That And There Are Consequences When You Don't. But I Also Think That There Will Be A Box Score, And There Will Be That One Negative, And Then There Will Be The Hundreds And Hundreds And Hundreds Of Times When The Record Will Show That I Did Not Abuse My Authority As President, That I Was Truthful With The American People.

I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two.

It's Only In America Where There Seems To Be This Sort Of Systematic Denial Of The Reality Of Global Warming At The Governmental Level, And In Too Many Sectors Of The High, The Private Sector. But It Looks To Me The Business Community May Actually Lead Us Toward A Clean Energy Future Almost In Spite Of Government Policy.

No Problem Of Human Making Is Too Great To Be Overcome By Human Ingenuity, Human Energy, And The Untiring Hope Of The Human Spirit.

Inspirational Life

Turning 50 Gives Me More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows.

The Pressure Of The [election] Campaign Has A Wonderful Way Of Revealing Your Strengths And Weaknesses.

There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured With What Is Right In America.

I Do Not Believe We Can Repair The Basic Fabric Of Society Until People Who Are Willing To Work Have Work. Work Organizes Life. It Gives Structure And Discipline To Life.

I Am Committed To Curbing The Influence Of Money In Our Political System.

I Will Tell You This: I Will Not Raise Taxes On The Middle-class To Pay For These Programs.

I Was An Equal Opportunity Eater. Every Ethnic Group Got A Shot.

In The Whole History Of This Country, We Have Probably Won More Friends From The Power Of Our Example Than From The Power Of Our Military.

If You Want To Live Like A Republican, Vote Like A Democrat.

I Think It's Crazy For Us To Play Games With Our Children's Future. We Know What's Happening To The Climate, We Have A Highly Predictable Set Of Consequences If We Continue To Pour Greenhouse Gases Into The Atmosphere.

The First Thing I Had To Start With Was, You Know, We Don't Have A War. We Don't Have A Depression, We Don't Have A Cold War.

I Support Lowering The Level Of Legal Immigration By A Moderate Amount At This Time. Legal Immigration Reform Must Be Based Upon Principles That Are Pro-family, Pro-work, And Pro-naturalization, Retaining Opportunities For Family Reunification As The Levels Are Lowered. We Must Not Let This Issue Become Divisive In This Country.

Every American Should Have Above Average Income, And My Administration Is Going To See They Get It.

Noting His Mother's Visit To Las Vegas The Weekend Before She Died. She Got To Go To Heaven Four Days Early.

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.

At The Same Time, Old Confrontations Have Taken On Frightening Urgency, Especially The India-pakistan Conflict Over Kashmir And The Violent Stalemate In The Middle East. Progress On These And Other Global Challenges Requires Us To Develop A Larger Strategy For American Foreign Policy, Rooted In A Fundamental Commitment To Move The World From Interdependence To An Integrated Global Community Committed To Peace And Prosperity, Freedom And Security.

We Should Not Let Our Response To The People Who Disagree With Us Be Dictated By What They Say About Us Or Even How They Treat People We Care For. There Has To Be A Chance That We Can Find Love.

When I Was A Younger Man And Had A Life, I Owned An El Camino Pickup In The '70s. It Was A Real Sort Of Southern Deal. I Had Astroturf In The Back.

Thanks To The Leadership Of Vice President Gore, We Have A Government For The Information Age, Once Again A Government That Is A Progressive Instrument Of The Common Good, Rooted In Our Oldest Values Of Opportunity, Responsibility And Community, Devoted To Fiscal Responsibility, Determined To Give Our People The Tools They Need To Make The Most Of Their Own Lives In The 21st Century, A 21st Century Government For 21st Century America.

We Will Lower The Tax Burden On Middle Class Americans By Asking The Very Wealthy To Pay Their Fair Share. Middle Class Taxpayers Will Have A Choice Between A Children's Tax Credit Or A Significant Reduction In Their Income Tax Rate.

We Passed Welfare Reform. All Of You Know I Believe We Were Right To Do It.

I Have Said Many Times-if I Hadn't Been Exposed To Music As A Child I Don't Think I Would Have Been President.

I Think Just About Everybody Ought To Get A Second Chance And I'd Like To See It Worked Out, Because He (pete Rose) Brought A Lot Of Joy To The Game, And He Gave A Lot Of Joy To People, And He's Paid A Price - God Knows, He's Paid A Price.

The Last Time I Checked, The Constitution Said, 'of The People, By The People And For The People.' That's What The Declaration Of Independence Says.

Undeniably, Character Does Count For Our Citizens, Out Communities, And Our Nation, And This Week We Celebrate The Importance Of Character In Our Individual Lives... Core Ethical Values Of Trustworthiness, Fairness, Responsibility, Caring, Respect, And Citizenship Form The Foundation Of Our Democracy, Our Economy, And Our Society... Instilling Sound Character In Our Children Is Essential To Maintaining The Strength Of Our Nation Into The 21st Century.

I Want To Talk About One Barrier That Has Not Been Broken. I Want You To Support Hillary [clinton] For Me, Too, Because I Want To Break A Ceiling. I Am Tired Of The Stranglehold That Women Have Had On The Job Of Presidential Spouse.

[they Let] Friendship With The Leaders In China Obscure Our Devotion To Freedom And Democracy When Those Kids Set Up In Tiananmen Square, And I Think It Was Wrong.

I Tried To Walk A Line Between Acting Lawfully And Testifying Falsely, But I Now Realize That I Did Not Fully Accomplish That Goal.

The New Rage Is To Say That The Government Is The Cause Of All Our Problems, And If Only We Had No Government, We'd Have No Problems. I Can Tell You, That Contradicts Evidence, History, And Common Sense.

Nearly Every Problem Has Been Solved By Someone, Somewhere. The Challenge Of The 21st Century Is To Find Out What Works And Scale It Up.

It Was Mario Cuomo's Great Gift And Our Good Fortune That He Was Both A Sterling Orator And A Passionate Public Servant. His Life Was A Blessing.

We Have A Chance Here To Prove That [rwanda], A Country That Almost Slaughtered Itself Out Of Existence, Can Practice Reconciliation, Reorganize Itself, Focus On Tomorrow And Provide Comprehensive, Quality Health Care With Minimal Outside Help.

No One Who Has Lived Through The Second Half Of The 20th Century Could Possibly Be Blind To The Enormous Impact Of Exchange Programs On The Future Of Countries.

Let Us Rededicate Ourselves To The Principle That All Americans Have The Tools To Make The Most Of Their God-given Potential. For Indian Tribes And Tribal Members, This Means That The Authority Of Tribal Governments Must Be Accorded The Respect And Support To Which They Are Entitled Under The Law. It Means That American Indian Children And Youth Must Be Provided A Solid Education And The Opportunity To Go On To College. It Means That More Must Be Done To Stimulate Tribal Economies, Create Jobs, And Increase Economic Opportunities.

I Have Always Believed That The Decision To Have An Abortion Generally Should Be Between A Woman, Her Doctor, Her Conscience, And Her God.

Being Gay, The Last Time I Looked, Had Nothing To Do With Reading A Balance Book, Fixing A Broken Bone Or Changing A Spark Plug.

My Major Political Identity Has Been As Her Spouse For The Last Decade And I Like It That Way.

It's The Biggest Public Health Problem In America, The Rising Rates Of Obesity Among Our Young People And Very Heavy Statistics Among Our Adult Population.

I Believe I'm A Better Authority Than Anybody Else In America On My Own Wife. I Have Never Known A Person With A Stronger Sense Of Right And Wrong In My Life Ever.

She Got To Go To Heaven Four Days Early.

There's Nothing Wrong With Making Mistakes. Just Don't Respond With Encores.

Making Mistakes

In Our Own Country, We Have Seen America Pay A Terrible Price For Any Form Of Discrimination, And We Have Seen Us Grow Stronger As We Have Steadily Let More And More Of Our Hatreds And Our Fears Go. As We Have Given More And More Of Our People The Chance To Live Their Dreams. That Is Why The Flame Of Our Statue Of Liberty, Like The Olympic Flame Carried All Across America By Thousands Of Citizen Heroes Will Always Burn Brighter Than The Flames That Burn Our Churches, Our Synagogues, Our Mosques.

I Never Thought Of Political Endeavors Primarily In Terms Of Power And Prestige, And I Never Thought Of Economic Endeavors Primarily In Terms Of Wealth And Position.

Promising Too Much Can Be As Cruel As Caring Too Little.

The Problem With Any Ideology Is That It Gives You The Answer Before You Examine The Evidence.

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