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I Ask That All Americans Demonstrate In Their Personal And Public Lives... The High Ethical Standards That Are Essential To Good Character And To The Continued Success Of Our Nation.

-William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton

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I Ask That All Americans Demonstrate In Their Personal And Public Lives... The High Ethical Standards That Are Essential To Good Character And To The Continued Success Of Our Nation.

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Through Scientific Discovery And Technological Innovation, We Enlist The Forces Of The Natural World To Solve Many Of The Uniquely Human Problems We Face - Feeding And Providing Energy To Agrowing Population, Improving Human Health, Taking Responsibility For Protecting The Environment And The Global Ecosystem, And Ensuring Our Own Nation's Security. Scientific Discoveries Inspire And Enrich Us, Teaching Us About The Mysteries Of Life And The Nature Of The World.

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I Made A Big Mistake. It Is Indefensible And I Am Sorry.

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Common Humanity

Working Together

I Personally Don't Believe We Ought To Be Raising Taxes Or Cutting Spending, Either One, Until We Get This Economy Off The Ground. I'll Pay More, But It Won't Solve The Problem.

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.

Politics Gives Guys So Much Power That They Tend To Behave Badly Around Women. And I Hope I Never Get Into That.

The World Has Never Truly Had To Develop An Ethic Of Interdependence Rooted In Our Common Humanity. And If We Do It, The 21st Century Will Be The Most Interesting, Exciting, Peaceful Era In History.

Common Humanity

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A Lot Of Presidential Memoirs, They Say, Are Dull And Self-serving. I Hope Mine Is Interesting And Self-serving.

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

The More Children See Of Violence, The More Numb They Are To The Deadly Consequences Of Violence. Now, Video Games Like 'mortal Kombat,' 'killer Instinct,' And 'doom,' The Very Game Played Obsessively By The Two Young Men Who Ended So Many Lives In Littleton, Make Our Children More Active Participants In Simulated Violence.

Cooperation Will Save The Future. And America Should Lead It. Every Time Humanity Has Been In Danger Of Extinguishing Itself, Our Consciousness And Our Conscience Have Led Us To Come Together. That's The Big Issue Of The 21st Century.

The Power Of Our Example Is More Important Than The Strength Of Our Military.

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.

This Is A Good Deal For The United States, North Korea Will Freeze And Then Dismantle Its Nuclear Program. South Korea And Our Other Allies Will Be Better Protected. The Entire World Will Be Safer As We Slow The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons. The United States And International Inspectors Will Carefully Monitor North Korea To Make Sure It Keeps Its Commitments. ...only As It Does, So Will North Korea Fully Join The Community Of Nations.

You Can't Blame The Administration And The Republicans For Taking Us Back To Deficits, For Spending The Social Security Surplus And Assaulting The Environment. That's What They Promised To Do In The Last Election.

I May Not Have Been The Greatest President, But I've Had The Most Fun Eight Years.

I'm Proud To Say That There Is Not A Single Russian Nuclear Missile Pointed At An American Child.

Nuclear Missiles

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

We Need To Be Creating A World That We Would Like To Live In When We're Not The Biggest Power On The Block.

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

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When I Was President, I Knew Exactly What I Wanted To Do Every Day To Bring America Together And Create A Greater Sense Of Opportunity And A Larger Sense Of Responsibility And A Stronger Sense Of Community.

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I'm Sure I Spent More Time In Texas Than Anybody Else Who Had Run For President Recently.

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.

We Cannot Build Our Own Future Without Helping Others To Build Theirs.

Making A Difference

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We Live To Prove That Cooperation Works Better Than Conflict.

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Great Rewards Will Come To Those Who Can Live Together, Learn Together, Work Together, Forge New Ties That Bind Together.

Working Together

We Want To Live Forever, And We're Getting There.

Today’s Generation Of Young People Holds More Power Than Any Generation Before It To Make A Positive Impact On The World.

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As We Have Throughout This Century, We Will Lead With The Power Of Our Example, But Be Prepared, When Necessary, To Make An Example Of Our Power.

I Have Never Believed We Had To Choose Between Either A Clean And Safe Environment Or A Growing Economy. Protecting The Health And Safety Of All Americans Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of Our Economy's Bottom Line. And Creating Thriving Companies And New Jobs Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink, The Food We Eat, Or The Natural Landscape In Which We Live. We Can, And Indeed Must, Have Both.

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I Love The Hrc. The Initials Are Great.

The Great Thing About This Game Is That The Bad Days Are Wonderful.

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To Build A Twenty-first-century Economy, America Must Revive A Nineteenth-century Habit--investing In The Common, National Economic Resources That Enable Every Person And Every Firm To Create Wealth And Value.

The Fights I Fought... Cost A Lot --the Fight For The Assault-weapons Ban Cost 20 Members Their Seats In Congress. The Nra Is The Reason The Republicans Control The House.

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Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

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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.

I'm Someone Who Had A Deep Emotional Attachment To 'starsky And Hutch.'

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The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Creative Collaborators

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.

What Are The Needs Of The World? What Can I Do That Won't Be Done If I Don't Do It?

The Community Of Nations May See More And More Of The Very Kind Of Threat Iraq Poses Now: A Rogue State With Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Ready To Use Them Or Provide Them To Terrorists. If We Fail To Respond Today, Saddam And All Those Who Would Follow In His Footsteps Will Be Emboldened Tomorrow.

Mass Destruction

The Earth Is Warming At An Alarming Rate, We Are Running Out Of Fossil Fuels, And It Is Long Past Time For Us To Take Action To Correct These Problems.

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.

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.

Where Are The Jobs Going To Come From?small Business, Manufacturing And Clean Energy. Where's The Money To Finance Them? The Banks And The Corporations In America Today Have Lots Of Money That They Can Invest Right Now.

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

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

Assault Weapons

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.

If You Are Focusing Your Anger At Government, You Are Focusing Your Anger At All Of Us. Government Is Just A Personification Of This Country.

Personification

Effort, Not Ability, Makes The Biggest Difference In Achievement.

I Believe That This Country's Policies Should Be Heavily Biased In Favor Of Nondiscrimination.

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

When I Was In Office I Expressed Admiration And Respect And Even Affection For Republicans That I Knew And Liked And Cared About, And I Tried To Find Ways To Work With Them. I Think The Democrats Should Do That, And Just Keep Trying To Lower The Temperature.

Abortion Should Not Only Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

All Of Us In Our Administration Worked Hard To Support Families In Raising Their Children And Succeeding At Work.

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

If No One Consumes These Products, People Will Stop Roducing Them. They Will Not Build It If You Didn't Come.

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?"

Even As People Take Pride In Their National Independence, We Know We Are Becoming More And More Interdependent.

A Lot Of Wonderful People Love Their Country And Hate The Military.

If You Think The President Was Right To Open The Doors Of American Opportunity To Young Immigrants Brought Here As Children Who Want To Go To College Or Serve In The Military, You Should Vote For Barack Obama.

What You Earn Depends On What You Learn.

Internet Technology

Information Technology

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.

I Think The Republicans And Conservatives Generally Were Alienated By America's Unsuccessful Effort In Vietnam, And A Lot Of Them, As Henry Kissinger Admitted The Other Day, Never Got Over President Nixon's Impeachment, And Didn't Think, Even Though There Was A Pattern Of Illegal Conduct There, Sanctioned By The White House And Proved By The Tapes And Other Documentary Evidence And Testimony, They Didn't Believe That The Impeachment Was Justified, And They Didn't Think He Should Have Resigned.

It's The Economy, Stupid.

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize And Don't Turn Back.

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.

If You Believe In The Values Of The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, The Declaration Of Independence, If You're Willing To Work Hard And Play By The Rules, You Are Part Of Our Family. And We're Proud To Be With You.

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.

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

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.

In A World With No Systems, With Chaos, Everything Becomes A Guerilla Struggle, And This Predictability Is Not There. And It Becomes Almost Impossible To Save Lives, Educate Kids, Develop Economies, Whatever.

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.

It Turns Out That Advancing Equal Opportunity And Economic Empowerment Is Both Morally Right And Good Economics. Why? Because Discrimination, Poverty And Ignorance Restrict Growth. We Know That Investments In Education, Infrastructure And Scientific And Technological Research Increase Growth. They Increase Good Jobs, And They Create New Wealth For All Of Us.

Everybody Counts, Everybody Deserves A Chance, Everybody Has A Responsible Role To Play And We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Working Together

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.

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

41, You Look Great. Love What You're Doing.

Some People Say Well We Need A Change. Hillary Clinton Is Been Around A Long, She Sure Has, And She's Sure Been Worth Every Single Year She's Put Into Making People's Lives Better.

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.

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.

Over Time, The More We Bring China Into The World, The More The World Will Bring Freedom To China.

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.

Together, People With Good Hearts And Fine Minds Can Move The World.

I Don't Mind The Debates, They're Good For America, But We Shouldn't Be Out There Attacking Each Other All The Time.

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.

Marijuana Is Ten Times More Dangerous Than Twenty Years Ago.

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

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.

By Lifting The Weakest, Poorest Among Us, We Lift The Rest Of Us As Well.

Volunteering Is An Act Of Heroism On A Grand Scale. And It Matters Profoundly. It Does More Than Help People Beat The Odds; It Changes The Odds.

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

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.

Let Us Do The Work That Is Before Us, So That When Our Time Here Is Over We Will All Watch The Sun Go Down As We All Must, And Say Truly, We Have Prepared Our Children For The Dawn.

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.

When Times Are Tough, Constant Conflict May Be Good Politics But In The Real World, Cooperation Works Better. After All, Nobody's Right All The Time, And A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day.

I Saw My Job [as President] As To Try To Move The World From An Unstable Condition Of Interdependence Toward More Integrated Cooperative World Community. Therefore, My Approach Was To Cooperate Wherever Possible And To Build Institutions Of Cooperation, An Expanded Nato, The World Trade Organization, The Summit Of The Americas, The Asian Pacific Leaders, All Those, The Coalition To Fight In Bosnia And Kosovo, To Cooperate Wherever Possible But To Act Alone If We Had To.

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 Love And Revere The Rich And Proud History Of America. And I Am Determined To Take Our Best Traditions Into The Future. But With All Respect, We Do Not Need To Build A Bridge To The Past. We Need To Build A Bridge To The Future.

If You Believe In A Security Strategy - A Strategy Of More Friends And Fewer Enemies, A Strategy Of Greater Cooperation And A Strategy Of Keeping America Better At Home As We Grow More Diverse - We Have To Build The Minds And Hearts To Build This Kind Of World.

All Of Us Have To Do A Better Job Of Teaching Young People Not To Let Themselves Be Defined By The Words Other People Use Against Them.

The Best Example Of All, To Me, That Our Problems Are Both Personal And Cultural And Political And Social Is The Whole Condition Of The Middle Class Economically.

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

Yesterday Is Yesterday. If We Try To Recapture It, We Will Only Lose Tomorrow.

In Today's Knowledge-based Economy, What You Earn Depends On What You Learn. Jobs In The Information Technology Sector, For Example, Pay 85 Percent More Than The Private Sector Average.

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.

I'm Pretty Good At Seeing Like A Lot Of Different Things Happening At Once And Putting Them In A Pattern And Figuring Out How You Can Rearrange It So It Might Have A Better Outcome.

That Everybody Can Do Something, Without Regard To How Old Or Young They Are, Rich Or Poor Or Middle Class They Are, How Busy Or Not Busy They Are And What Level Skills They Have. Everyone Can Do Something. And Everybody Should Do Something. ... And If You Do It, You'll Be Happier.

I Don't Know Whether It's The Finest Public Housing In America Or The Crown Jewel Of The American Penal System.

Putin Wants To Reestablish Russian Greatness, Not As The Cold War, But In 19th Century Empire Terms.

When It Comes To Anything That's Social, Whether It's Your Family, Your School, Your Community, Your Business Or Your Country, Winning Is A Team Sport.

Work Is About More Than Making A Living, As Vital As That Is. It's Fundamental To Human Dignity, To Our Sense Of Self-worth As Useful, Independent, Free People.

Our Relationship Would Never Vary From Its Allegiance To The Shared Values, The Shared Religious Heritage, The Shared Democratic Politics Which Have Made The Relationship Between The United States And Israel A Special-even On Occasion A Wonderful-relationship ... The United States Admires Israel For All That It Has Overcome And For All That It Has Accomplished. We Are Proud Of The Strong Bond We Have Forged With Israel, Based On Our Shared Values And Ideals. That Unique Relationship Will Endure Just As Israel Has Endured.

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.

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.

I Mean My Life Was A Combination Of Fascination With Other People, With Politics, And With Policy, And The Impact Of Government Decisions On People's Lives And The Life Of Our Nation And The Life Of The World.

We Can't Be So Fixated On Our Desire To Preserve The Rights Of Ordinary Americans.

It Is Now Conceivable That Our Children's Children Will Know The Term Cancer Only As A Constellation Of Stars.

[hillary Clinton] Isinsatiably Curious, She's A Natural Leader, She's A Good Organiser, And She's The Best Darn Change Maker I Ever Met In My Entire Life. This Is A Really Important Point For You To Take Out Of This Convention.

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

Behind Every Great Man

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

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

Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

Elvis Presley Was The First And The Best. He Is My Favorite Of All Time.

Citizen Service Is The Very American Idea That We Meet Our Challenges Not As Isolated Individuals But As Members Of A True Community, With All Of Us Working Together. Our Mission Is Nothing Less Than To Spark A Renewed Sense Of Obligation, A New Sense Of Duty, A New Season Of Service.

We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Common Humanity

Working Together

Character Doesn't Matter.

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.

It Is A $270 Billion Cut In Medicare

It Is Important To Me That Everybody Who Has Been Hurt Know That The Sorrow I Feel Is Genuine. First And Most Important, My Family, My Friends, My Staff, My Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky And Her Family And The American People. I Have Asked All For Their Forgiveness.

It's Important That The American People Understand That President Has Proposed And Passed This Stimulus Plan Not As The End-all And Be-all To Our Economic Woes But As Our Bridge Over Troubled Water Until We Get The Finance System, The Banking System Working Again.

I Believe That A Worthwhile Life Is Defined By A Kind Of Spiritual Journey And A Sense Of Obligation.

I Try To Be Self-analytical, Both To Outline The Mistakes I Made In My Life And Try To Explain Why I Did, And The Things That On Balance I Did Pretty Well On.

I'm Very Proud That The First Bill I Had The Opportunity To Sign Into Law As President Was The Family And Medical Leave Act No Parent Should Ever Have To Choose Between Work And Family; Between Earning A Decent Wage And Caring For A Child.

I Think The Idea Of Moving To A Cleaner Energy Future And Doing More Energy Efficiency Makes Smart Sense.

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.

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.

We Are Here To Celebrate The Completion Of The First Survey Of The Entire Human Genome. Without A Doubt, This Is The Most Important, Most Wondrous Map Ever Produced By Human Kind.

In The New Economy, Information, Education, And Motivation Are Everything.

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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.

Millions Of People Of Color Still Experience Racism Daily.

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.

Poverty, Discrimination, And Ignorance Restrict Growth.

On Bill Clinton: I Have A Simple Question: Who's The Last President To Give You A Balanced Budget?

Our Land Of New Promise Will Be A Nation That Meets Its Obligations, A Nation That Balances Its Budget, But Never Loses The Balance Of Its Values.

Our Immigration Policy Is Focussed In Four Areas: First, Strengthening Border Control; Second, Protecting American Jobs By Enforcing Laws Against Illegal Immigrants At The Workplace; Third, Deporting Criminal And Deportable Aliens; Fourth, Giving Assistance To States Who Need It, And Denying Illegal Aliens Benefits For Public Services Or Welfare.

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

The Era Of Big Government Is Over.

I Spent A Lot Of Time When I Was President, Trying To End Wars, Prevent Killing, And Promote Understanding. What I Have Seen Is That Peace Works Better Than Conflict, And One Of The Best Manifestations Of It Is In Travel And Tourism.

I've Been In Politics Long Enough To Expect Criticism And Hostility. But I Was Unprepared For The Hatred I Get From Christians. Why Do Christians Hate So Much?.

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.

Follow The Trend Lines, Not The Headlines.

Sure Enough At Oxford, I Was Another Yank Half A Step Behind.

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

America Just Works Better When More People Have A Chance To Live Their Dreams.

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.

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

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.

I Want To Make It Very Clear That This Middle-class Tax Cut, In My View, Is Central To Any Attempt We're Going To Make To Have A Short-term Economic Strategy And A Long-term Fairness Strategy, Which Is Part Of Getting This Country Going Again.

Part Of Our Essential Humanity Is Paying Respect To What God Gave Us And What Will Be Here A Long Time After We're Gone.

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...nixon's Subversion [of The Consititution] Consisted Of: One Presidental Lie; One Invocation Of Presidental Privilege, And Zero Criminal Offences.

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