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Globalisation Is Not Something That We Can Hold Off Or Turn Off. It Is The Economic Equivalent Of A Force Of Nature, Like Wind Or Water.

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William J. Clinton

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Globalisation Is Not Something That We Can Hold Off Or Turn Off. It Is The Economic Equivalent Of A Force Of Nature, Like Wind Or Water.

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Mass Destruction

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In The Budget I Will Present To You, We Will Try To Do More To Speed The Deportation Of Illegal Aliens Who Are Arrested For Crimes, To Better Identify Illegal Aliens In The Workplace As Recommended By The Commission Headed By Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. 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.

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.

I Think That Most Small Amounts Of Marijuana Have Been Decriminalized In Some Places, And Should Be. We Really Need A Re-examination Of Our Entire Policy On Imprisonment...our Imprisonment Policies Are Counterproductive.

The Fundamental Problem You Have Anywhere Is When People Think Their Lives And The Lives Of Their Children Don't Matter, They They Are Somehow Disposable, Just Like A Paper Napkin After A Lunch At A Restaurant Or Something, If We Want Our Freedom To Be In Deed As Well As Word In America, We Have To Make People Feel That Everybody Matters Again.

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.

There Are Times When Only America Can Make The Difference Between War And Peace, Between Freedom And Repression, Between Life Death. We Cannot Save All The World's Children But We Can Save Many Of Them.

So Much Of Modern Politics Is Focused Not On Honest Differences Of Policy But On Personal Attacks.

There Is Nothing More Precious To A Parent Than A Child, And Nothing More Important To Our Future Than The Safety Of All Our Children.

People Will Vote For Someone Who [they Perceive] Is Strong And Wrong Before They Will Vote For Someone Who Appears Weak But Is Right.

Leadership Means Bringing People Together In Pursuit Of A Common Cause, Developing A Plan To Achieve It, And Staying With It Until The Goal Is Achieved.

All America Loses When Any Person Is Denied Or Forced Out Of A Job Because Of Sexual Orientation. Being Gay, The Last Time I Thought About It, Seemed To Have Nothing To Do With The Ability To Read A Balance Book, Fix A Broken Bone, Or Change A Spark Plug.

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.

When Personal Freedom's Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It. That's What We Did In The Announcement I Made Last Weekend On The Public Housing Projects, About How We're Going To Have Weapon Sweeps

From New Hampshire Forward, For Reasons That Absolutely Mystified Me, The Press Thought The Most Important Issue In The Race Was The Middle Class Tax Cut. I Never Did Meet Any Voter Who Thought That.

Sometimes I Feel Like The Fire Hydrant Looking At A Pack Of Dogs.

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

I Do Think That The Role Of The Internet, And The Way It's Bringing Everything Into The Home, Has Made A Parent's Job Much More Difficult. And It's Harder To Know What To Do And How To Do It. It's Much, Much Harder.

If We Disagree And I Think I'm Right, I Just Go Ahead And Do What I Think Is Right. And Then She Tells Me, 'i Told You So.'

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman

We Will Reduce The White House Staff By 25 Percent

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