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From The Small Clubs Of The Harlem Renaissance Where He Began Playing Saxophone To World Tours For The Biggest Of The Big Bands, Benny Carter Redefined American Jazz. From The Start, His Fellow Musicians Said The Way He Played The Sax Was Amazing. They Say That About Me, Too. (laughter.) But I Don't Think They Mean It In Quite The Same Way.

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From The Small Clubs Of The Harlem Renaissance Where He Began Playing Saxophone To World Tours For The Biggest Of The Big Bands, Benny Carter Redefined American Jazz. From The Start, His Fellow Musicians Said The Way He Played The Sax Was Amazing. They Say That About Me, Too. (laughter.) But I Don't Think They Mean It In Quite The Same Way.

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

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Congratulations

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I Want To Nominate A Man Who's Cool On The Outside, But Who Burns For America On The Inside.

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The Country Is Groaning And Moaning And Screaming For Change.

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

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

What We Did With Deeming Rules Were Designed - It Was Designed To Keep Costs From Coming On To The Government That Should Be Borne By Families Of Immigrants Who Actually Have Incomes And Can Afford To Pay.

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Common Humanity

Working Together

New Information And Communications Technologies Can Improve The Quality Of Life For People With Disabilities, But Only If Such Technologies Are Designed From The Beginning So That Everyone Can Use Them. Given The Explosive Growth In The Use Of The World Wide Web For Publishing, Electronic Commerce, Lifelong Learning And The Delivery Of Government Services, It Is Vital That The Web Be Accessible To Everyone.

When We Make College More Affordable, We Make The American Dream More Achievable.

It Depends Upon What The Meaning Of The Word 'is' Is. If 'is' Means 'is And Never Has Been' That's One Thing - If It Means 'there Is None', That Was A Completely True Statement.

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.

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.

I'm Bill Clinton And I Think You Deserve A Change. That's Why I've Offered A Plan To Get The Economy Moving Again, Starting With A Middle-class Tax Cut.

Somehow We All End Up Paying For What We Do.

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

In Our Efforts To Battle Terrorism And Cyber Attacks And Biological Weapons, All Of Us Must Be Extremely Aggressive. We Must Protect Our People From Danger And Keep America Safe And Free.

[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.

Our Paradigm Now Seems To Be: Something Terrible Happened To Us On September 11, And That Gives Us The Right To Interpret All Future Events In A Way That Everyone Else In The World Must Agree With Us. And If They Don't, They Can Go Straight To Hell.

Banning Human Cloning Reflects Our Humanity. It Is The Right Thing To Do. Creating A Child Through This New Method Calls Into Question Our Most Fundamental Beliefs. It Has The Potential To Threaten The Sacred Family Bonds At The Very Core Of Our Ideals And Our Society. At Its Worst, It Could Lead To Misguided And Malevolent Attempts To Select Certain Traits, Even To Create Certain Kind Of Children -- To Make Our Children Objects Rather Than Cherished Individuals.

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

The New Energy Future Is Decentralised, Entrepreneurial And Needs People Like You To Say 'give Me A Clean Car, Give Me Solar Shingles To Put On My Roof - Give Me A Clean Future'

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.

There Are A Lot Of Very Brilliant People Who Believe That The Nation-state Is Fast Becoming A Relic Of The Past.

When We Give What We Can, And Give It With Joy, We Don't Just Renew The American Tradition Of Giving, We Also Renew Ourselves.

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.

I Think What Breaks People Is Not Adversity; What Breaks People Is Thinking That Tomorrow Is Going To Be Just Like Yesterday. That's What's Numbing - If You Think You Can't Change, You Can't Be Better. And I Didn't Like That.

Nothing We Do In This Great Capital Can Change The Fact That Factories Or Information Can Flash Across The World, That People Can Move Money Around In The Blink Of An Eye... Nothing Can Change The Fact That Technology Can Be Adopted, Once Created, By People All Across The World And Then Rapidly Adapted In New And Different Ways By People Who Have A Little Different Take On The Way That Technology Works.

California Has Become The First American State Where There Is No Majority Race, And We're Doing Just Fine. If You Look Around The Room, You Can See A Microcosm Of What We Can Do In The World. . . . You Should Be Hopeful On Balance About The Future. But It's Like Any Future Since The Beginning Of Time -- You're Going To Have To Make It.

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

You Have To Make A Conscious Decision To Change For Your Own Well-being, And That Of Your Family And Your Country.

Thomas Jefferson Believed That To Preserve The Very Foundations Of Our Nation, We Would Need Dramatic Change From Time To Time. Well, My Fellow Americans, This Is Our Time. Let Us Embrace It.

Don't You Ever Orget That In The End, Our Future Is Tied To People, That It's More About Ideas Than A Tax.

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

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The Road To Tyranny, We Must Never Forget, Begins With The Destruction Of The Truth.

If You Wanna Maintain 20 Percent Of The World's Income With 4 Percent Of The World's People, You Gotta First Of All Have More Shared Prosperity And Shared Growth.

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