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I Want Our Nation To Take Responsibility To Make Sure That Every Single Child Can Look Out The Window In The Morning And See A Whole Community Getting Up And Going To Work. We Want These Young People To Know The Thrill Of The First Paycheck, The Challenge Of Starting That First Business, The Pride In Following In A Parent's Footsteps.

-William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton

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I Want Our Nation To Take Responsibility To Make Sure That Every Single Child Can Look Out The Window In The Morning And See A Whole Community Getting Up And Going To Work. We Want These Young People To Know The Thrill Of The First Paycheck, The Challenge Of Starting That First Business, The Pride In Following In A Parent's Footsteps.

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I Figured If I Could Get Really Good People Who Were Going To Be Able To Have A Big Impact In The World Over The Next Decade To Come Together Once A Year For Ten Years And Actually Sign A Pledge To Take Action Themselves, If We Did That Every Year For Ten Years We Could Do A Lot Of Good In The World. That's The Difference Between My Meeting And Any Other. If You Don't Want To Promise To Do Something, Don't Come To My Meeting, Stay Home.

I Do Not Believe We Can Repair The Basic Fabric Of Society Until People Who Are Willing To Work Have Work. Work Organizes Life. It Gives Structure And Discipline To Life.

The Bush Administration Continues To Coddle China, Despite Its Continuing Crackdown On Democratic Reform, Its Brutal Subjugation Of Tibet, Its Irresponsible Export Of Nuclear And Missile Technology... Such Forbearance On Our Part Might Have Made Sense During The Cold War When China Was The Counterweight To Soviet Power. It Makes No Sense To Play The China Card Now When Our Opponents Have Thrown In Their Hand.

I Tell You, My Fellow Americans, That If We Learned Anything From The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall And The Fall Of The Governments In Eastern Europe, Even A Totally Controlled Society Cannot Resist The Winds Of Change That Economics And Technology And Information Flow Have Imposed In This World Of Ours. That Is Not An Option. Our Only Realistic Option Is To Embrace These Changes And Create The Jobs Of Tomorrow.

We Must Teach Our Children To Resolve Their Conflicts With Words, Not Weapons.

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

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.

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.

My Only Enemy Is Right-wing Religious Fundamentalism.

It Is Time To Stop Personal Destruction And Prying Into Private Lives

The Era Of Big Government Is Over.

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

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

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.

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

Presidents Are Not Permitted To Have Personal Feelings.

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.

Golf Is Like Life In A Lot Of Ways - All The Biggest Wounds Are Self-inflicted.

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.

African Americans Watch The Same News At Night That Ordinary Americans Do.

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Only A Fool Does Not Look To Explain His Mistakes.

When I Took Office, Only High Energy Physicists Had Ever Heard Of What Is Called The Worldwide Web... Now Even My Cat Has Its Own Page.

The Arts Have Long Been An Integral And Vibrant Part Of Our Nation's Cultural Heritage. In Its Many Forms, Art Enables Us To Gain A Deeper Understanding Of Ourselves And Of Our Society. Providing Us With A Unique Way To Learn About People Of Other Cultures, It Allows Us To Discover All That We Have In Common. At Its Best, Art Can Beautify Our Cities, Encourage Economic Development And Social Change, And Profoundly Affect The Ways We Live Our Lives.

The Problem With Ideology Is If You Got An Ideology, You Already Got Your Mind Made Up, You Know All The Answers, And That Makes Evidence Irrelevant And Argument A Waste Of Time, So You Tend To Govern By Assertion And Attack. The Problem With That Is That Discourages Thinking And Gives You Bad Results.

We Are A People Of Faith. We Have Been So Secure In That Faith That We Have Enshrined In Our Constitution Protection For People Who Profess No Faith. And Good For Us For Doing So. That Is What The First Amendment Is All About.

The Last Time I Checked, The Constitution Said, 'of The People, By The People And For The People.' That's What The Declaration Of Independence Says.

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.

Simply Put, Unsustainable Debt Is Helping To Keep Too Many Poor Countries And Poor People In Poverty.

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

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.

At The Dawn Of The 21st Century, A Free People Must Now Choose To Shape The Forces Of The Information Age And The Global Society, To Unleash The Limitless Potential Of All Our People, And Yes, To Form A More Perfect Union.

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