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I Think You Have You To Give People The Facts [about Global Warming], And Then You Have To Tell Them, This Is Not Like Drinking Castor Oil. There Is A, An Economically Exciting Way For Us To Create A Whole New Generation Of American Jobs Without Costing Them An Enormous Amount Of Money Or Forcing Them To Change Their Lifestyle.

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William J. Clinton

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I Think You Have You To Give People The Facts [about Global Warming], And Then You Have To Tell Them, This Is Not Like Drinking Castor Oil. There Is A, An Economically Exciting Way For Us To Create A Whole New Generation Of American Jobs Without Costing Them An Enormous Amount Of Money Or Forcing Them To Change Their Lifestyle.

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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

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.

It Is Pretty Hard To Talk About Responsibility Unless You Have Exercised It Yourself.

After Years Of Denial And Deception, The Philip Morris Company Has Admitted That Cigarette Smoking Causes Lung Cancer And Other Diseases. This Formal Acknowledgment Comes Far Too Late But Still We Must All Welcome It. It Can Be The Beginning Of Clearing The Air.

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.

The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Creative Collaborators

$100,000 Donors Buy Access To Congress And The White House. We Believe It's Long Past Time To Clean Up Washington.

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 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.

History Will Remember Nelson Mandela As A Champion For Human Dignity And Freedom, For Peace And Reconciliation.

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

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.

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.

I Was An Equal Opportunity Eater. Every Ethnic Group Got A Shot.

Banning Human Cloning Reflects Our Humanity. It Is The Right Thing To Do. Creating A Child Through This New Method Calls Into Question Our Most Fundamental Beliefs. It Has The Potential To Threaten The Sacred Family Bonds At The Very Core Of Our Ideals And Our Society. At Its Worst, It Could Lead To Misguided And Malevolent Attempts To Select Certain Traits, Even To Create Certain Kind Of Children -- To Make Our Children Objects Rather Than Cherished Individuals.

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.

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.

The Hard Fact Is That So Long As Saddam Remains In Power, He Threatens The Well-being Of His People, The Peace Of His Region, And The Security Of The World.

There's This Whole Problem Of Trafficking, Which Has Gotten Worse In The Economic Downturn, Which Disproportionately Affects Young Women, But Also Affects Some Young Men Who Are Sold Into Bondage, Into Basically Servitude For Indebted Work That They Can Often Never Escape From.

We Should Make It A Crime Even To Attempt To Pollute. Our Children Should Grow Up Next To Parks, Not Poison.

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