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I Ask You To Join In A Re-united States. We Need To Empower Our People So They Can Take More Responsibility For Their Own Lives In A World That Is Ever Smaller, Where Everyone Counts.... We Need A New Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together, Or The American Dream Will Continue To Wither. Our Destiny Is Bound Up With The Destiny Of Every Other American.

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William J. Clinton

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I Ask You To Join In A Re-united States. We Need To Empower Our People So They Can Take More Responsibility For Their Own Lives In A World That Is Ever Smaller, Where Everyone Counts.... We Need A New Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together, Or The American Dream Will Continue To Wither. Our Destiny Is Bound Up With The Destiny Of Every Other American.

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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.

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

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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.

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 Divide Of Race Has Been America's Constant Curse. Each New Wave Of Immigrants Gives New Targets To Old Prejudices. Prejudice And Contempt, Cloaked In The Pretense Of Religious Or Political Conviction, Are No Different. They Have Nearly Destroyed Us In The Past. They Plague Us Still. They Fuel The Fanaticism Of Terror. They Torment The Lives Of Millions In Fractured Nations Around The World. These Obsessions Cripple Both Those Who Are Hated And, Of Course, Those Who Hate, Robbing Both Of What They Might Become.

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.

We Have Seen A Man Dragged To Death In Texas Simply Because He Was Black. A Young Man Murdered In Wyoming Simply Because He Was Gay. In The Last Year Alone, We've Seen The Shootings Of African Americans, Asian Americans, And Jewish Children Simply Because Of Who They Were. This Is Not The American Way. We Must Draw The Line. Without Delay, We Must Pass The Hate Crimes Prevention Act And The Employment Non-discrimination Act. And We Should Reauthorize The Violence Against Women Act.

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.

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.

Simply Put, No Society Can Truly Flourish If It Stifles The Dreams And Productivity Of Half Its Population. Happily, I See Evidence All Over The World That Women Are Gaining Social And Economic Power That They Never Had Before. This Is Good News.

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

[it] Has A Lot Of Things In It That I Like, But I Think It's Way Too Hard On Financing Things From Immigrants.

Nasa Even Sent Chuck Berry's Music On A Space Probe Searching For Intelligent Life In Outer Space. Well, Now, If They're Out There, They're Duck Walking

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.

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.

Along The Way They're (mlb) Going To Lose Millions Of More American Fans.

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.

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

I'm Just Trying To Suppress My Natural Impulses And Get Back To Work.

I Love The Book Signings, You Know, Because I Get To Talk To Real People, And A Staggering Number Of People Have Said Something Very Specific To Me. "the Family Leave Law Saved My Family," Or "made Our Lives Better," Or, "the Education Aid That You Provided Made It Possible For Me To Go To College." One Man At 50 Years Of Age Got His College Degree.

When You Strip Away All The Little Things That Divide Us, It's Important To Remember How Tied We Are

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

Assault Weapons

Hope I Lived Up To My Reputation For Being Slick.

Everybody Has A Gas-guzzling Car Because People Like Suvs. They Would Like Suvs If They Were Hybrid Vehicles That Had The Same Horsepower And Used Less Gasoline. Instead, What The Auto Manufacturers Are Doing Is Building Suvs That Are Hybrid Vehicles That Use The Same Amount Of Gasoline Because They Up The Horsepower. That's A Decision That They Make To Market Irresponsible Economic Behavior. The American People Like The Suvs, They Have Kids, They, They Need Them, They Get Around In Them, But We Have Options.

Our Military Superiority Is So Great - It's Far Greater Than It Was In The Gulf War, And The Gulf War Was Over In 100 Hours After We Bombed For 43 Days. And So Now They Can Bomb For A Couple Of Days And Then Just Roll Into Baghdad... The Odds Are There's Going To Be A War And It's Going To Be Not For Very Long.

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