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Islam Is One Of The Fastest-growing Faiths Within America, And America Needs To Show That We're Not Anti-islam. We Are For, For People Being Free And Having Opportunity Everywhere, That... We Did That In Bosnia, We Did That In Kosovo, We Did That In Numerous Other Places In The World.

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

The Only Preparation For Prospering In The Global Economy Is Investing In Ourselves.

I Have Never Seen . . . So Slippery, So Disgusting A Candidate.

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

Advances In Computer Technology And The Internet Have Changed The Way America Works, Learns, And Communicates. The Internet Has Become An Integral Part Of America's Economic, Political, And Social Life

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.

Every Time Bush Talks About Trust It Makes Chills Run Up And Down My Spine. The Way He Has Trampled On The Truth Is A Travesty Of The American Political System.

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.

In Science, If The Last 50 Years Were The Age Of Physics, The Next 50 Years Will Be The Age Of Biology.

I Have Said Many Times-if I Hadn't Been Exposed To Music As A Child I Don't Think I Would Have Been President.

I Might Not Be The Same, But That's Not Important/no Freedom Till We're Equal, Damn Right I Support It

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.

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

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.

I Don't Think The Republicans Can Damage My Character

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.

Global Poverty Is A Powder Keg That Could Be Ignited By Our Indifference.

It Is A Commonplace Of American Life That Immigrants Have Made Our Country Great And Continue To Make A Very Important Contribution To The Fabric Of American Life. But...under The Pressures We Face Today, We Can't Afford To Lose Control Of Our 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. Therefore, Immigration Must Be A Priority For This Administration.

We Live In An Interdependent World. Every Time You Cut Off Somebody Else's Opportunities, You Shrink Your Own Horizons.

It Is A $270 Billion Cut In Medicare

Effort, Not Ability, Makes The Biggest Difference In Achievement.

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.

Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

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.

I Think The Idea Of Moving To A Cleaner Energy Future And Doing More Energy Efficiency Makes Smart Sense.

Politics Is For People Who Are Too Ugly To Get Into Showbusiness.

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 Misled People, Including Even My Wife.

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!

Edgar Wayburn Has Worked To Preserve The Most Breath-taking Examples Of The American Landscape. In Fact, Over The Course Of More Than A Half-century, Both As President Of The Sierra Club And As A Private Citizen, He Has Saved More Of Our Wilderness Than Any Person Alive.

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.

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

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

We Are On The Right Track To The 21st Century. We Are On The Right Track, But Our Work Is Not Finished. What Should We Do? First, Let Us Consider How To Proceed. I Say The Question Is No Longer, "who's To Blame?" But "what To Do?"

Ultimately, The Best Strategy To Ensure Our Security And To Build A Durable Peace Is To Support The Advance Of Democracy Elsewhere. Democracies Don't Attack Each Other.

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

Saddam Hussein Didn't Kill 3,100 People On Sept. 11. Osama Bin Laden Did, And As Far As We Know He's Still Alive.

I Mean, When's The Last Time We Elected A President Based On One Year Of Service In The Senate Before He Started Running? I Mean, He Will Have Been A Senator Longer By The Time He's Inaugurated, But Essentially Once You Start Running For President Full Time You Don't Have Time To Do Much Else.

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.

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

Working Together

The Price Of Doing The Same Old Thing Is Far Higher Than The Price Of Change.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Which Highlights Customer Satisfaction, Workforce Empowerment, And Increased Productivity, Has Come To Symbolize America's Commitment To Excellence.

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

Everybody Counts, Everybody Deserves A Chance, Everybody Has A Responsible Role To Play And We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Working Together

Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility.

If There's Grass In The Field, Play Ball!

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.

To The Extent That Our Workers Compete With Low-paid Mexicans, It Is As Much Through Undocumented Immigration As Trade. This Pattern Threatens Low-paid, Low-skill U.s. Workers. The Combination Of Domestic Reforms And Nafta-related Growth In Mexico Will Keep More Mexicans At Home. It Is Likely That A Reduction In Immigration Will Increase The Real Wages Of Low-skilled Urban And Rural Workers In The United States.

I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century In Which We Create A Strong And Growing Economy To Preserve The Legacy Of Opportunity For The Next Generation By Balancing Our Budget In A Way That Protects Our Values And Ensuring That Every Family Will Be Able To Own And Protect The Value Of Their Most Important Asset, Their Home.

We Must Continue To Deepen Our Ties To The Americas And The Caribbean, Our Common Work To Educate Children, Fight Drugs, Strengthen Democracy, And Increase Trade.

That's What She [hillary Clinton] Is Done With Everything All Her Life. She Just Makes Something Good Happen, And That's What You Need.

Character Is A Journey, Not A Destination.

And I Have A Plan To Do Even Better, To End Welfare As We Know It

People Will Vote For Someone Who [they Perceive] Is Strong And Wrong Before They Will Vote For Someone Who Appears Weak But Is Right.

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

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

The Most Profound Security Threat We Face Today Is Global Warming....climate Change Has The Capacity To Change The Way All Of Us Live.

Let's Adopt Some Short-term Strategies To Get Growth Going And Then Let's Have A Long-term Debt Reduction Package. That's What I Think We Should Do And I Think It Will Work.

Most Of The Major Mistakes I Made In My Life, I Made When I Was Too Tired To Know What I Was Doing - Both Personally And Professionally.

We Should Pass A Flex Time Law That Allows Employees To Take Their Overtime Pay In Money Or In Time Off, Depending On What's Better For Their Family.

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.

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

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.

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

Nearly Everyone Will Lie To You, Given The Right Circumstances.

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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 Fully Share The Congress's Objective Of Promoting Nonproliferation And Combating Iran's Efforts To Acquire Weapons Of Mass Destruction (wmd) And Missile Delivery Systems. This Issue Remains At The Top Of The Agenda With Russia As Well As With Other Countries Whose Companies May Be Providing Such Assistance To Iran. In The Case Of Russian Entities' Cooperation With Iran, We Have Imposed Penalties Ten Times In The Past And Stand Ready To Apply Them Again Whenever Necessary.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Most Powerful People On Earth Are Focus Groups.

We're All In This Together Is A Far Better Philosophy Than You're On Your Own.

Focus On The Future

This Will Arguably Be The Third Great Revolution Of America, If We Can Prove That We Literally Can Live Without Having A Dominant European Culture.

We Should Not Let Our Response To The People Who Disagree With Us Be Dictated By What They Say About Us Or Even How They Treat People We Care For. There Has To Be A Chance That We Can Find Love.

I Don't Know In My Long Life That I Ever Worked With Anybody That Has Quite The Combination Of Policy Knowledge And Concern, Political Skills, Of A Personal Touch With People, And A Sense Of Innate Fairness That Inspires Confidence.

If You Believe In The Values Of The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, The Declaration Of Independence, If You're Willing To Work Hard And Play By The Rules, You Are Part Of Our Family. And We're Proud To Be With You.

We Passed Welfare Reform. All Of You Know I Believe We Were Right To Do It.

Through Scientific Discovery And Technological Innovation, We Enlist The Forces Of The Natural World To Solve Many Of The Uniquely Human Problems We Face - Feeding And Providing Energy To Agrowing Population, Improving Human Health, Taking Responsibility For Protecting The Environment And The Global Ecosystem, And Ensuring Our Own Nation's Security. Scientific Discoveries Inspire And Enrich Us, Teaching Us About The Mysteries Of Life And The Nature Of The World.

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.

People Ought To Be Going Over This, Finding Things They Don't Like. Congress Has Clearly Proved They Can Act In A Hurry. If There's Something Wrong With It, It Can Be Amended. If Something Needs To Be Kicked In, It Can Be Put In. If Something Needs To Be Taken Out, It Can Be Taken Out.

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

Sometimes I Think The Environment In Which We Operate Is Entirely Too Secular. The Fact That We Have Freedom Of Religion Doesn't Mean We Need To Try To Have Freedom From Religion

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

Downsizing Budgets May Be Necessary, But Downsizing Dreams Is A Decision To Be Disappointed.

The Other Thing We Have To Do Is To Take Seriously The Role In This Problem Of . . . Older Men Who Prey On Underage Women. . . . There Are Consequences To Decisions And . . . One Way Or The Other, People Always Wind Up Being Held Accountable.

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.

Everybody Has A Gas-guzzling Car Because People Like Suvs. They Would Like Suvs If They Were Hybrid Vehicles That Had The Same Horsepower And Used Less Gasoline. Instead, What The Auto Manufacturers Are Doing Is Building Suvs That Are Hybrid Vehicles That Use The Same Amount Of Gasoline Because They Up The Horsepower. That's A Decision That They Make To Market Irresponsible Economic Behavior. The American People Like The Suvs, They Have Kids, They, They Need Them, They Get Around In Them, But We Have Options.

We Find As Our Interdependence Increases That, On The Whole, We Do Better When Other People Do Better As Well.

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

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.

Every Tax Cut I Call For Is Targeted, It's Responsible And It Is Paid For Within My Balanced Budget Plan. My Tax Cuts Will Not Undermine Our Economy. They Will Speed Economic Growth.

I Am Grateful To President George W. Bush For Pepfar, Which Is Saving The Lives Of Millions Of People In Poor Countries And To Both Presidents Bush For The Work We've Done Together After The South Asia Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina And The Haitian Earthquake.

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

African American

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 Did Have A Relationship With Miss Lewinsky That Was Not Appropriate. In Fact, It Was Wrong. It Constituted A Critical Lapse In Judgment And A Personal Failure On My Part For Which I Am Solely And Completely Responsible.

Four Years Ago Nobody But Nuclear Physicists Had Ever Heard Of The Internet. Today Even My Cat, Socks, Has His Own Web Page. I'm Amazed At That. I Meet Kids All The Time, Been Talking To My Cat On The Internet.

There Is No Longer A Clear, Bright Line Dividing America's Domestic Concerns And America's Foreign Policy Concerns...if We Want America To Stay On The Right Track, If We Want Other People To Be On That Track And Have The Chance To Enjoy Peace And Prosperity, We Have No Choice But To Try To Lead The Train.

Our Campaign Is The Opposite Of 'competence.'

Politics Is Not Religion And We Should Govern On The Basis Of Evidence, Not Theology.

We Should Stay On The Right Track To The 21st Century. Opportunity Alone Is Not Enough. I Want To Build An America In The 21st Century In Which All Americans Take Personal Responsibility For Themselves, Their Families, Their Communities And Their Country.

These Dilemmas Present Perhaps The Most Enduring Conundrum Of Human History: Can People Derive Their Identity Primarily By Positive Association Or Does Life's Meaning Also Require Negative Comparison To Others?

President Obama Is Going To Have To Run Against Himself. In Tough Times, Nobody Can Defeat Himself.

The 22nd Amendment Should Probably Be Modified To Say Two Consecutive Terms Instead Of Two Terms For A Lifetime.

I Want To Say To You Is That James Madison And Thomas Jefferson Did Not Intend To Drive A Stake In The Heart Of Religion And To Drive It Out Of Our Public Life. What They Intended To Do Was To Set Up A System So That We Could Bring Religion Into Our Public Life And Into Our Private Life Without Any Of Us Telling The Other What To Do.

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.

More People Can Be Great Leaders Than Think They Can, But They Need A Purpose Greater Than Themselves.

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.

Torture Must Only Be Hypothetical Exception, Not Us Policy.

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.

They Are Cutting Medicare

We Are Moving People From Welfare To Work. On Welfare, We Launch A Quiet Revolution.

The New Rage Is To Say That The Government Is The Cause Of All Our Problems, And If Only We Had No Government, We'd Have No Problems. I Can Tell You, That Contradicts Evidence, History, And Common Sense.

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

There Is A Huge Body Of Business Evidence Now Showing That Energy Savings Give Better Service At Lower Cost With Higher Profit. We Have To Tear Down Barriers To Successful Markets And We Have To Create Incentives To Enter Them.

We Must Fortify African Democracy And Peace By Launching Radio Democracy For Africa, Supporting The Transition To Democracy Now Beginning To Take Place In Nigeria.

No One Who Has Lived Through The Second Half Of The 20th Century Could Possibly Be Blind To The Enormous Impact Of Exchange Programs On The Future Of Countries.

Putin Wants To Reestablish Russian Greatness, Not As The Cold War, But In 19th Century Empire Terms.

The Fundamental Problem You Have Anywhere Is When People Think Their Lives And The Lives Of Their Children Don't Matter, They They Are Somehow Disposable, Just Like A Paper Napkin After A Lunch At A Restaurant Or Something, If We Want Our Freedom To Be In Deed As Well As Word In America, We Have To Make People Feel That Everybody Matters Again.

One Of The Things That All Kids Are Taught By Their Parents Is This Old "sticks And Stones Will Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me."

I Think What Breaks People Is Not Adversity; What Breaks People Is Thinking That Tomorrow Is Going To Be Just Like Yesterday. That's What's Numbing - If You Think You Can't Change, You Can't Be Better. And I Didn't Like That.

The Risk Is That As We Come Out Of This Recession, We'll Have So Much Debt To Finance, We'll Either Have To Have Inflation Or Very High Interest Rates To Continue To Borrow The Money, Or Both. That's A Risk.

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.

You Know The One Thing That's Wrong With This Country? Everyone Gets A Chance To Have Their Fair Say.

You Can't Blame The Administration And The Republicans For Taking Us Back To Deficits, For Spending The Social Security Surplus And Assaulting The Environment. That's What They Promised To Do In The Last Election.

I Don't Know Whether It's The Finest Public Housing In America Or The Crown Jewel Of The American Penal System.

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.

We Respect The Individual Conscience Of Every American On The Painful Issue Of Abortion, But Believe As A Matter Of Law That This Decision Should Be Left To A Woman, Her Conscience, Her Doctor And Her God. But Abortion Should Not Only Be Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

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.

We Simply Cannot Afford To Give The Reigns Of Government So Someone Who Will Double Down On Trickle Down

No One Can Change Yesterday, But We Can All Change Tomorrow.

When Our Memories Outweigh Our Dreams, It Is Then That We Become Old.

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.

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.

Our Military Superiority Is So Great - It's Far Greater Than It Was In The Gulf War, And The Gulf War Was Over In 100 Hours After We Bombed For 43 Days. And So Now They Can Bomb For A Couple Of Days And Then Just Roll Into Baghdad... The Odds Are There's Going To Be A War And It's Going To Be Not For Very Long.

What If [saddam] Fails To Comply And We Fail To Act, Or We Take Some Ambiguous Third Route, Which Gives Him Yet More Opportunities To Develop This Program Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction? ... Well, He Will Conclude That The International Community Has Lost Its Will. He Will Then Conclude That He Can Go Right On And Do More To Rebuild An Arsenal Of Devastating Destruction. And Some Day, Some Way, I Guarantee You He'll Use The Arsenal.

Mass Destruction

We're Going To Build The Bridge To The 21st Century, We Have To Make Our Children Free - Free Of The Vise Grip Of Guns And Gangs And Drugs; Free To Build Lives Of Hope.

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

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

On Bill Clinton: I Have A Simple Question: Who's The Last President To Give You A Balanced Budget?

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.

Almost Makes You Want To Go To Jail Out Here, Doesn't It?

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

The Simple Fact Is That We Must Not-and We Will Not-surrender Our Borders To Those Who Wish To Exploit Our History Of Compassion And Justice.

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

Americans - Not Just Starting Thirty Years Ago But Going Back To The Beginning, When We Were Rebelling Against King George - We've Always Been Of Two Minds About The Government, Which Is Why The Framers Wrote The Constitution The Way They Did.

One Of The Things That I Realized When I Left Office Was That In The 1990's Citizens Across The World Applied More Power Than They Had Ever Had, As Compared With The Government, Because Of More People Living Under Democracies Than Dictatorships For The First Time, The Power Of The Internet, Which The Young Chinese Used To Basically Change China's Policy On The Sars Epidemic, And Shut It Down, And Because Of The Rise In Non-governmental Organizations Like My Foundation.

I Think It's Crazy For Us To Play Games With Our Children's Future. We Know What's Happening To The Climate, We Have A Highly Predictable Set Of Consequences If We Continue To Pour Greenhouse Gases Into The Atmosphere.

America Just Works Better When More People Have A Chance To Live Their Dreams.

If The Personal Freedoms Guaranteed By The Constitution Inhibit The Government's Ability To Govern The People, We Should Look To Limit Those Guarantees.

Sometimes When People Are Under Stress, They Hate To Think, And It's The Time When They Most Need To Think.

I Think The Democrats Are Going To Have To Be Willing To Give Up, Maybe, Some Short-term Political Gain By Whipping Up Fears On Some Of These Things - If It's A Reasonable Social Security Proposal, A Reasonable Medicare Proposal. We've Got To Deal With These Things. You Cannot Have Health Care Devour The Economy.

Even If It Takes Changing The Law, The President Should Honor The Commitment The Federal Government Made To Those People And Let Them Keep What They Got.

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 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.

I Ask That All Americans Demonstrate In Their Personal And Public Lives... The High Ethical Standards That Are Essential To Good Character And To The Continued Success Of Our Nation.

Ethical Standards

I Want The Ability To Monitor High-tech Communications Among Far-flung Terrorists. I Want To Be Able To Have Our People Learn Their Plans Before They Strike. That's The Key.

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.

When I Was In Office I Expressed Admiration And Respect And Even Affection For Republicans That I Knew And Liked And Cared About, And I Tried To Find Ways To Work With Them. I Think The Democrats Should Do That, And Just Keep Trying To Lower The Temperature.

The Purpose Of Affirmative Action Is To Give Our Nation A Way To Finally Address The Systemic Exclusion Of Individuals Of Talent On The Basis Of Their Gender, Or Race From Opportunities To Develop, Perform, Achieve And Contribute. Affirmative Action Is An Effort To Develop Systematic Approach To Open The Doors Of Education, Employment, And Business Development Opportunities To Qualified Individuals Who Happen To Be Members Of Groups That Have Experienced Long-standing And Persistent Discrimination.

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.

Don't You Ever Orget That In The End, Our Future Is Tied To People, That It's More About Ideas Than A Tax.

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.

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.

You Know, There Was A Recent Poll Which Said That Young People In The Generation Of The Students Here Felt It Was Far More Likely That They Would See A Ufo Than That They Would Draw Social Security... It's Very Important You Understand This. Once You Understand This, You Realize This Is Not An Episode From The X Files, And You're Not More Likely To See A Ufo If You Do Certain Specific Things.

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

Just As War Is Freedom's Cost, Disagreement Is Freedom's Privilege.

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.

Americans Long To Be United. After 9/11, We All Just Wanted To Be One Nation. Not A Single American On September The 12, 2001, Cared Who Won The Next Presidential Election.

The Seven Principles Of Kwanzaa - Unity, Self-determinat Ion, Collective Work And Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity And Faith -- Teach Us That When We Come Together To Strengthen Our Families And Communities And Honor The Lesson Of The Past, We Can Face The Future With Joy And Optimism.

My Only Enemy Is Right-wing Religious Fundamentalism.

Indeed, I Did Have A Relationship With Miss Lewinsky That Was Not Appropriate. In Fact, It Was Wrong.

Music, To Me, Was - Is - Representative Of Everything I Like Most In Life. It's Beautiful And Fun, But Very Rigorous. If You Wanted To Be Good You Had To Work Like Crazy. It Was A Real Relationship Between Effort And Reward. My Musical Life Experiences Were Just As Important To Me, In Terms Of Forming My Development, As My Political Experiences Or My Academic Life.

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

Marijuana Is Ten Times More Dangerous Than Twenty Years Ago.

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.

Drugs Nearly Killed My Brother When He Was A Young Man And I Hate Them. He Fought Back. And I'm Really Proud Of Him. But I Learned Something In Going Through That Long Nightmare With Our Family. And I Can Tell You, Something Has Happened To Some Of Our Young People. They Simply Don't Think These Drugs Are Dangerous Anymore. Or They Think The Risk Is Acceptable.

The American People Have Now Spoken, But It's Going To Take A Little While To Determine What They've Said.

A Man Is More Than The Sum Of All The Things He Can Do.

Profound And Powerful Forces Are Shaking And Remaking Our World. And The Urgent Question Of Our Time Is Whether We Can Make Change Our Friend And Not Our Enemy.

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

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.

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.

What We Believe In Is What Works.

There's A Big Conservative Press Unabashedly And For The Democrats And Even People To The Left Of The Democratic Party, There's Almost Virtually No Outlets That You Can Compare With The Vast Array Of Conservative Press That's Out There.

Leadership Means Bringing People Together In Pursuit Of A Common Cause, Developing A Plan To Achieve It, And Staying With It Until The Goal Is Achieved.

If We Want To Invest In The Prosperity Of Our Nation, We Must Invest In The Education Of Our Children So That Their Talents May Be Fully Employed.

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

You Should Strive To Find Happiness Every Day And Not Believe That It Comes At The End Of The Journey.

When We Put Aside Partisanship, Embrace The Best Ideas Regardless Of Where They Come From And Work For Principled Compromise, We Can Move America Not Left Or Right, But Forward.

There Is Nothing More Precious To A Parent Than A Child, And Nothing More Important To Our Future Than The Safety Of All Our Children.

When You're President, You Have More Power To Help More People, But You Also Are The Prisoner Of Circumstances As Well, And Countervailing Political Forces More.

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.

When Times Are Tough, Constant Conflict May Be Good Politics But In The Real World, Cooperation Works Better. After All, Nobody's Right All The Time, And A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day.

Just Because We Cannot Do Everything For Everyone Does Not Mean We Should Do Nothing For Anyone.

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.

We Should Set A National Goal Of Making Computers And Internet Access Available For Every American . . . We Must Help All Americans Gain The Skills They Need To Make The Most Of The Connection.

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