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In Our Own Country, We Have Seen America Pay A Terrible Price For Any Form Of Discrimination, And We Have Seen Us Grow Stronger As We Have Steadily Let More And More Of Our Hatreds And Our Fears Go. As We Have Given More And More Of Our People The Chance To Live Their Dreams. That Is Why The Flame Of Our Statue Of Liberty, Like The Olympic Flame Carried All Across America By Thousands Of Citizen Heroes Will Always Burn Brighter Than The Flames That Burn Our Churches, Our Synagogues, Our Mosques.

-William J. Clinton

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In Our Own Country,

William J. Clinton

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In Our Own Country, We Have Seen America Pay A Terrible Price For Any Form Of Discrimination, And We Have Seen Us Grow Stronger As We Have Steadily Let More And More Of Our Hatreds And Our Fears Go. As We Have Given More And More Of Our People The Chance To Live Their Dreams. That Is Why The Flame Of Our Statue Of Liberty, Like The Olympic Flame Carried All Across America By Thousands Of Citizen Heroes Will Always Burn Brighter Than The Flames That Burn Our Churches, Our Synagogues, Our Mosques.

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Working Together

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You Can't Be Involved In Modern American Politics Without Somebody Attacking You.

American Politics

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.

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.

We Must All Be Profoundly Grateful For The Magnificent Achievements Of Our Forbearers In This Century. Yet Perhaps In The Daily Press Of Events, In The Clash Of Controversy, We Don't See Our Own Time For What It Truly Is - A New Dawn For America.

You Have To Make A Conscious Decision To Change For Your Own Well-being, And That Of Your Family And Your Country.

You Should Have Disagreements With Your Leaders And Your Colleagues, But If It Becomes Immediately A Question Of Questioning People's Motives, And If Immediately You Decide That Somebody Who Sees A Whole New Situation Differently Than You Must Be A Bad Person And Somehow Twisted Inside, We Are Not Going To Get Very Far In Forming A More Perfect Union.

There Are A Lot Of Very Brilliant People Who Believe That The Nation-state Is Fast Becoming A Relic Of The Past.

I Want To Help Communities Put Welfare Recipients To Work Right Now, Without Delay, Repairing Schools, Making Their Neighborhoods Clean And Safe, Making Them Shine Again. There's Lots Of Work To Be Done Out There. Our Cities Can Find Ways To Put People To Work And Bring Dignity And Strength Back To These Families.

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.

The Bible Is The Authoritative Word Of God And Contains All Truth.

Though I Often Disagree With Republicans, I Never Learned To Hate Them The Way The Far Right That Now Controls Their Party Seems To Hate Our President [barack Obama] And A Lot Of Other Democrats.

All My Life I've Been Interested In Other People's Stories. I Wanted To Know Them, Understand Them, Feel Them.

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.

We Want To Live Forever, And We're Getting There.

It Turns Out That Advancing Equal Opportunity And Economic Empowerment Is Both Morally Right And Good Economics. Why? Because Discrimination, Poverty And Ignorance Restrict Growth. We Know That Investments In Education, Infrastructure And Scientific And Technological Research Increase Growth. They Increase Good Jobs, And They Create New Wealth For All Of Us.

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.

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

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I Believe That A Worthwhile Life Is Defined By A Kind Of Spiritual Journey And A Sense Of Obligation.

Anyone Can Want Something; It's Those Who Believe In Their Goals That Achieve.

I Tried Marijuana Once Or Twice In England, But Didn't Like It. I Didn't Inhale.

Life Is A Journey Towards Truth, We Have Something To Learn From Each Other, And Everybody Ought To Have A Chance To Make The Journey. So For Us, A Community Is Just Made Up Of Anybody Who Accepts The Rules Of The Game, Everybody Counts, Everybody Has A Role To Play, Everybody Deserves A Chance And We All Do Better When We Work Together

Nothing In Our Lifetimes Has Been More Heartening Than When People Of The Former Soviet Union And Central Europe Broke The Grip Of Communism. We Have Aided Their Progress And I Am Proud Of It.

The Ideals That Bind Us Together Are As Old As Our Nation, But So Are The Forces That Pull Us Apart.

From Bill Clinton Speech- People Are More Impressed By The Power Of Our Example Rather Than The Example Of Our Power.

My Fellow Americans, We Can Only Build Our Bridge To The 21st Century If We Build It Together, And If We're Willing To Walk Arm-in-arm Across That Bridge Together.

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.

I Have Always Believed That The Decision To Have An Abortion Generally Should Be Between A Woman, Her Doctor, Her Conscience, And Her God.

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.

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

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

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