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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.

-William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton

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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.

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This Remains A Very Important Opportunity For The American People To Have Their Day In Court Against Big Tobacco And Its Marketing Practices. I Urge Congress To Provide The Funding To Allow The Lawsuit To Move Forward, And Not To Shield The Tobacco Industry From The Consequences Of Its Actions.

We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Common Humanity

Working Together

I Am Opposed To Abortion And To Government Funding Of Abortions. We Should Not Spend State Funds On Abortions Because So Many People Believe Abortion Is Wrong.

I Want American Dream Growth - Lots Of New Businesses, Well-paying Jobs, And American Leadership In New Industries, Like Clean Energy And Biotechnology.

We Set Forth On A Journey To Bring Our Vision To Our Country, To Keep The American Dream Alive For All Who Are Willing To Work For It, To Make Our American Community Stronger, To Keep America The World's Strongest Force For Peace And Freedom And Prosperity.

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.

When, President Bush Asks Me To Go With His Father To The Tsunami Impacted Areas And Help Raise Money, I Was Thrilled To Do That, Because I Think We Have To Always Keep Looking For Common Ground.

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

One Of The Things That I Think We Have Learned Is That We Should All Be Very Careful About Making Predictions About The Future.

President Obama's Record On National Security Is A Tribute To His Strength, And Judgment, And To His Preference For Inclusion And Partnership Over Partisanship.

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

So We, Democrats, Have A Responsibility There, Every One Of Us, Both To Try To Treat The Republicans With Respect And As Human Beings To Try To Work With Them On Every Issue We Can, And Then If Those Cannons Are Fired At Us, We've Got To Stand Up And Fight Back. If You Lay Down And You Look Like A Deer Caught In The Headlights, Then You Will Confirm The Assault. And So We Have To Fight Back.

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.

Follow The Trend Lines, Not The Headlines.

If You Want To Be Forgiven, You Have To Extend Forgiveness, Even To People Who Aren't Smart Enough To Ask For It.

Do You Think I'd Be Stupid Enough To Go Running With Someone I Was Foolin' With?

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

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.

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.

If, Two People Have Good Minds And They're Looking At Problems, If They Agree All The Time It Means One Of Them Is Not Thinking. If They Disagree All The Time, It Means One Of Them Is Not Thinking. They're Just Allowing Their Political Position To Dictate Their Position On An Issue. And I Think That's Unhealthy. And The Public Knows Better.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Making Mistakes

What Happened To Us In September, 2001, Is A Microcosmic But Painful And Powerful Example Of The Fact We Live In An Inter-dependent World That Is Not Yet An Integrated Global Community.

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

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

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

We Must Say No To Illegal Immigration So We Can Continue To Say Yes To Legal Immigration.

Illegal Immigration

If You Want To Have A Good Life You Have To Have Some Constructive Outlet For Your Feelings.

Because Primarily Of The Power Of The Internet, People Of Modest Means Can Band Together And Amass Vast Sums Of Money That Can Change The World For Some Public Good If They All Agree.

We Need A Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together. If We Have No Sense Of Community, The American Dream Will Wither.

Pessimism Is An Excuse For Not Trying And A Guarantee To A Personal Failure.

Israel's Democracy Is The Bedrock On Which Our Relationship Stands. It's A Shining Example For People Around The World Who Are On The Frontline Of The Struggle For Democracy In Their Own Lands. Our Relationship Is Also Based On Our Common Interest In A More Stable And Peaceful Middle East, A Middle East That Will Finally Accord Israel The Recognition And Acceptance That Its People Have Yearned For So Long And Have Been Too Long Denied, A Middle East That Will Know Greater Democracy For All Its Peoples.

My Father Left Me With The Feeling That I Had To Live For Two People, And That If I Did It Well Enough, Somehow I Could Make Up For The Life He Should Have Had. And His Memory Infused Me, At A Younger Age Than Most, With A Sense Of My Own Mortality. The Knowledge That I, Too, Could Die Young Drove Me Both To Try To Drain The Most Out Of Every Moment Of Life And To Get On With The Next Big Challenge. Even When I Wasn't Sure Where I Was Going, I Was Always In A Hurry.

For Four Years We've Been Cooperating Exhaustively

Presidents Are Not Permitted To Have Personal Feelings.

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.

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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.

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

If A President Of The United States Ever Lied To The American People, He Should Resign.

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

Music Is About Communication, Creativity, And Cooperation, And By Studying Music In Schools, Students Have The Opportunity To Build On These Skills, Enrich Their Lives, And Experience The World From A New Perspective.

...more Important Than The Deficit, More Important Then Healthcare-more Important Than Anything-we Have Got To Do Something About Our Energy Strategy. Because If We Permit The Climate To Continue To Warm At An Unsustainable Rate, And If We Keep On Doing What We're Doing Until We're Out Of Oil And We Haven't Made The Transition, Then It's Inconceivable To Me That Our Children And Grandchildren Will Be Able To Maintain The American Way Of Life And That The World Won't Be Much Fuller Of Resource-based Wars Of All Kinds.

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.

We Have No Intention Of Abandoning The American People To Unproven Theories And Extreme Positions. We're The People Party And We're Going To Stick Up For The People.

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

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

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I Can Spend Your Money Better Than You Can.

Better Than You

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Positive Energy

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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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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.

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.

The Established Order Has Too Many Self-protecting Economic Entities, And Not Enough People Who Yet Understand What It Takes To Change.

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Mass Destruction

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Without A High Pain Threshold, You Can't Be A Successful President.

...the Fact [is] That Our Borders Leak Like A Sieve: Those Things Cannot Be Permitted To Continue In Good Conscience.

Our Bridge To The Future Must Include Bridges To Other Nations, Because We Remain The World's Indispensable Nation To Advance Prosperity, Peace And Freedom And To Keep Our Own Children Safe From The Dangers Of Terror And Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

[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.

Mental Illness Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of, But Stigma And Bias Shame Us All.

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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.

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Internet Access

We Need To Help Younger People Recognize Their Own Capacity To Do Good, And Help Them Discover The Rewards Of Generosity.

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.

Throughout The Middle East, There Is A Great Yearning For The Quiet Miracle Of A Normal Life.

A Significant Number Of Petroleum Geologists Believe That We Will Reach The Global Maximum Of Petroleum Extraction Within This Decade Or That We Have Already Reached It. Peak Oil Happened In 1970 In America, When Over Half Of Our Oil That We Gained From The Soil Was Exhausted ... This Is Very Disturbing, Regardless Of Global Warming.

If We Have The Right Preventive And Primary Care, If We Start Charging For Comprehensive Care In The Chronic Cases, 10 Percent Of The Cases Take Up Two-thirds Of The Medical Expenses, And If We Do More On Problems Like Childhood Obesity, That We Can, To Use The Parlance That's Popular In Washington, Bend The Cost Curve And Eventually Reconcile This So Our Costs Will Be Closer To Our Competitors And So We Can Cover Everybody.

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.

The Worst Thing About Not Being President Anymore Is I Was Disoriented For Three Weeks Because Nobody Every Played A Song When I Walked In.

You Don't Have To Wait Till Your Party's In Power To Have An Impact On Life At Home And Around The World.

I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two.

Just Try To Imagine What It Would Be Like To Be 300 Million Years Old.

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.

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 Believe We Can Do Much More To Adapt To The Structural Changes In The Global Economy, Get High-end Manufacturing Back Here, Set Up Clusters Of Economic Activity Where You Have, Among Other Things, Continuous Retraining Of People Well Into Their Middle Years So They Never Become Irrelevant To The Current Job Market.

Somehow We All End Up Paying For What We Do.

It's Good For Young People To Be Angry About Something.

We Know That When We Protect Our Oceans We're Protecting Our Future.

Frankly, I'm Fed Up With Politicians In Washington Lecturing The Rest Of Us About Family Values. Our Families Have Values. But Our Government Doesn't.

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.

We All Do Better When We Work Together. Our Differences Do Matter, But Our Common Humanity Matters More.

Common Humanity

Working Together

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.

Character Is A Journey, Not A Destination.

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

More Than Any Other Nation On Earth, America Has Constantly Drawn Strength And Spirit From Wave After Wave Of Immigrants. In Each Generation, They Have Proved To Be The Most Restless, The Most Adventurous, The Most Innovative, The Most Industrious Of People. Bearing Different Memories, Honoring Different Heritages, They Have Strengthened Our Economy, Enriched Our Culture, Renewed Our Promise Of Freedom And Opportunity For All.

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

Working Together

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.

I Challenge Every Business Person In America Who Has Ever Complained About The Failure Of The Welfare System To Try To Hire Somebody Off Welfare. And Try Hard.

[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.

I Was Not Elected To Produce A Pile Of Vetoes.

Only The Police Should Have Handguns.

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.

I Don't Like To Use The Word Sacrifice.

For Too Long We've Been Told About 'us' And 'them.' Each And Every Election We See A New Slate Of Arguments And Ads Telling Us That 'they' Are The Problem, Not 'us.' But There Can Be No 'them' In America. There's Only Us.

Education No Longer Stops On Graduation Day. We Must Demand Excellence At Every Level Of Education.

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

We All Have To Learn To Live Together.

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.

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'

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.

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

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

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

When Some Republican Governors Asked To Try New Ways To Put People On Welfare Back To Work, The Obama Administration Said They Would Only Do It If They Had A Credible Plan To Increase Employment By 20%. You Hear That? More Work. So The Claim That President Obama Weakened Welfare Reform's Work Requirement Is Just Not True.

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

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.

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.

I Recently Spoke With Barbara Jordan Of The U.s. Commission On Immigration Reform, And I Increasingly Believe We Need A System To Verify Employment Eligibility. The Commission's Recommendation Of A National Registry May Be The Way To Go.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

My View Is There Will Be Problems And Bad People As Long As The Earth Exists, And Since We're Moving Into A Completely Interdependent Global Environment, We're Better Off Building A World We'd Like To Live In When The United States Are Not The Only Military Superpower. That Is, We Need To Build A World Of Shared Responsibility, Shared Benefits, And Shared Commitment To Our Common Humanity.

One Of The Main Reasons We Ought To Re-elect President Obama Is That He Is Still Committed To Constructive Cooperation... He Appointed Republican Secretaries Of Defense, The Army And Transportation. He Appointed A Vice President Who Ran Against Him In 2008.

Success Is Not The Measure Of A Man But A Triumph Over Those Who Choose To Hold Him Back.

Congratulations

I Believe That Those Who Promote Discrimination On The Basis Of Sexual Orientation Or Any Other Grounds Are Gravely Mistaken About The Values That Make Our Nation Strong. I Will Continue To Move My Administration In The Direction Of Compassion, Acceptance, And Understanding.

We Still Have Too Many Americans Who Give In To Their Fears Of Those Who Are Different From Them. Not So Long Ago, Swastikas Were Painted On The Doors Of Some African-american Members Of Our Special Forces At Ft. Bragg. They Are Special Forces. They Do Not Deserve To Have Swastikas On Their Doors.

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

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

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

It Might Suprise You To Know I Think I Raised Them Too Much, Too

We Know That Progress Is Not Inevitable. But Neither Was Victory Upon These Beaches. Now, As Then, The Inner Voice Tells Us To Stand Up And Move Forward. Now, As Then, Free People Must Choose.

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.

During The Sole Argument We Had When [chelsea] Was In High School, The Subject Of Which I Don't Even Remember, I Looked At Her And Said, 'as Long As You're In This House, Being President Is My Second Most Important Job'.

The Constitution Is A Radical Document... It Is The Job Of The Government To Rein In People's Rights.

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.

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.

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 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.

Our Big Goal Should Be To Make Connection To The Internet As Common As Connection To Telephones Is Today.

Without Question, Bicycling Is An Efficient, Economical And Environmentally Sound Form Of Transportation And Recreation. Bicycling Is A Great Activity For Families, Recreational Riders And Commuters. Hillary, Chelsea And I Have Bicycles.

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.

We're Not Talking About A Few Rooms Here With Delicate Personal Matters Involved.

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

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

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.

I Learned A Lot From The Stories My Uncle, Aunts, And Grandparents Told Me: That No One Is Perfect But Most People Are Good; That People Can't Be Judged Only By Their Worst Or Weakest Moments; That Harsh Judgements Make Hypocrites Of Us All; That A Lot Of Life Is Just Showing Up And Hanging On; That Laughter Is Often The Best, And Sometimes Only Response To Pain.

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

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

Education Is Not A Privilege, It Is A Right!

He Was A Martyr Of Peace But Was The Victim Of Hate. If People Can't Let Go Of The Hatred Of Their Enemies They Risk Sowing The Seeds Of Hate Among Themselves.

Rarely Have Americans Lived Through So Much Change, In So Many Ways, In So Short A Time. Quietly, But With Gathering Force, The Ground Has Shifted Beneath Our Feet As We Have Moved Into An Information Age, A Global Economy, A Truly New World.

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 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.

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

We Need Not Just A New Generation Of Leadership But A New Gender Of Leadership

In General I Saw My Job As The First President Whose Full Term Would Be Served After The Cold War In A Global Information Society Where We Were Interdependent But Not Integrated. And Therefore, We Were Vulnerable To The Worst, And Able To Seize The Best, Of What's Going On In The World.

If One Candidate Is Appealing To Your Fears, And The Other One's Appealing To Your Hopes, You’d Better Vote For The Person Who Wants You To Think And Hope!

The Most Important Question Of The 21st Century Is Not What Or How Much, It Is 'how?' How Do You Propose To Turn Your Good Ideas Into Positive Changes In Other People's Lives? You Must Be The 'how Generation.'

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

There Are Fewer Chemical Pollutants In The Air. Our Drinking Water Is Safer. Our Food Standards Have Been Raised. We've Cleaned Up More Toxic Waste Sites In Three Years Than The Previous Administrations Did In Twelve. The Environment Is Cleaner, And We Have Fought Off The Most Vigorous Assault On Environmental Protection Since We Began To Protect The Environment In 1970. We Are Moving In The Right Direction To The 21st Century.

Work Organizes Life. It Gives Structure And Discipline To Life.

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.

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.

My Plan After Office Is To Get Up And Spend That Entire First Day Helping My Wife Move Into Her New Senatorial Office.

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

The Purpose Of Politics Is To Give People Tools To Make The Most Of Their Lives.

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.

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.

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.

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

[george Bush] Has Raised Taxes On The People Driving Pickup Trucks And Lowered Taxes On The People Riding In Limousines. We Can Do Better.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

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

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.

My Only Enemy Is Right-wing Religious Fundamentalism.

I Take Full Responsability...for What We Did. It Was The Right Thing To Do.

I Had Some Words With My Wife, And She Had Some Paragraphs With Me.

If You Look At What's Happened To The Stock Market, If You Look At What's Happened To Housing Values, If You Look At What's Happened To Bank Loan Portfolios Because The Value Of Their Other Assets That They've Already Issued Loans Against Were Going Down, There Was A Pretty Good Argument For Trying To Pass Something At About This Level Of Investment With The Divisions As They Were - Unemployment, Food Stamps, And Tax Cuts, Aid To Education And Healthcare, And Job Creation.

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.

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.

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