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I Think The Country Could Be Spared A Lot Of Agony And The Government Could Worry About Inflation And A Lot Of Other Problems If [nixon Would] Go On And Resign. [there Is] No Question That An Admission Of Making False Statements To Government Officials And Interfering With The Fbi And The Cia Is An Impeachable Offense.

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William J. Clinton

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I Think The Country Could Be Spared A Lot Of Agony And The Government Could Worry About Inflation And A Lot Of Other Problems If [nixon Would] Go On And Resign. [there Is] No Question That An Admission Of Making False Statements To Government Officials And Interfering With The Fbi And The Cia Is An Impeachable Offense.

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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.

Citizenship In The 21st Century Requires More Than Paying Your Taxes And Voting And Occasionally Running For Office. That Even If You're Never In Political Office, You Have Political Responsibilities. You Can Make Your Society Stronger And Better.

When You Get Asked Hundreds Of Questions, It's Not Possible To Remember The Answer To Every One.

I Don't Believe You Can Find Any Evidence Of The Fact That I Have Changed Government Policy Solely Because Of A Contribution.

We All Do Better When We Work Together.

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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.

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

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.

If Ever There Comes A Time When Everyone You Vote For Wins And They Do Everything You Think They Should Do, There Will Still Be A Gap Between What Is And What Ought To Be.

I Did Attempt To Find Out If There Were Any Secret Government Documents That Revealed Things. If There Were, They Were Concealed From Me Too. And If There Were, Well I Wouldn't Be The First American President That Underlings Have Lied To, Or That Career Bureaucrats Have Waited Out. But There May Be Some Career Person Sitting Around Somewhere, Hiding These Dark Secrets, Even From Elected Presidents. But If So, They Successfully Eluded Me...and I'm Almost Embarrassed To Tell You I Did (chuckling) Try To Find Out.

What Really Happened In Vietnam Was- All These Things Are Away Games For The American Military. We're Not On Our Home Turf, Which Means To Succeed There Has To Be A Partner. And The Definition Of Partnership Is Someone Willing To Risk Their Lives In Their Home Area To Prevail Because They Think It's Necessary To Build A Decent Life And A Better Life For Their People.

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.

Sincerity? I Can Fake That.

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.

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.

In The Emerging Global Economy, Everything Is Mobile: Capital, Factories, Even Entire Industries. The Only Resource That's Really Rooted In A Nation--and The Ultimate Source Of All Its Wealth--is Its People.

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

We Are More Connected Than Ever Before, More Able To Spread Our Ideas And Beliefs, Our Anger And Fears. As We Exercise The Right To Advocate Our Views, And As We Animate Our Supporters, We Must All Assume Responsibility For Our Words And Actions Before They Enter A Vast Echo Chamber And Reach Those Both Serious And Delirious, Connected And Unhinged.

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.

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