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Let Us Rededicate Ourselves To The Principle That All Americans Have The Tools To Make The Most Of Their God-given Potential. For Indian Tribes And Tribal Members, This Means That The Authority Of Tribal Governments Must Be Accorded The Respect And Support To Which They Are Entitled Under The Law. It Means That American Indian Children And Youth Must Be Provided A Solid Education And The Opportunity To Go On To College. It Means That More Must Be Done To Stimulate Tribal Economies, Create Jobs, And Increase Economic Opportunities.

-William J. Clinton

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Let Us Rededicate Ourselves

William J. Clinton

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Let Us Rededicate Ourselves To The Principle That All Americans Have The Tools To Make The Most Of Their God-given Potential. For Indian Tribes And Tribal Members, This Means That The Authority Of Tribal Governments Must Be Accorded The Respect And Support To Which They Are Entitled Under The Law. It Means That American Indian Children And Youth Must Be Provided A Solid Education And The Opportunity To Go On To College. It Means That More Must Be Done To Stimulate Tribal Economies, Create Jobs, And Increase Economic Opportunities.

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Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

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When I Think About The World I Would Like To Leave To My Daughter And The Grandchildren I Hope To Have, It Is A World That Moves Away From Unequal, Unstable, Unsustainable Interdependence To Integrated Communities - Locally, Nationally And Globally - That Share The Characteristics Of All Successful Communities.

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

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.

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.

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

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

That Everybody Can Do Something, Without Regard To How Old Or Young They Are, Rich Or Poor Or Middle Class They Are, How Busy Or Not Busy They Are And What Level Skills They Have. Everyone Can Do Something. And Everybody Should Do Something. ... And If You Do It, You'll Be Happier.

If A President Of The United States Ever Lied To The American People, He Should Resign.

We Will Reduce The White House Staff By 25 Percent

So We, Democrats, Have A Responsibility There, Every One Of Us, Both To Try To Treat The Republicans With Respect And As Human Beings To Try To Work With Them On Every Issue We Can, And Then If Those Cannons Are Fired At Us, We've Got To Stand Up And Fight Back. If You Lay Down And You Look Like A Deer Caught In The Headlights, Then You Will Confirm The Assault. And So We Have To Fight Back.

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.

And I'd Like To Say To The Senate, I Hope You Will Say Yes To A Stronger American Democracy In The Year 2000.

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.

The Greatest Progress We Have Made, And The Greatest Progress We Have Yet To Make, Is In The Human Heart. In The End, All The World's Wealth And A Thousand Armies Are No Match For The Strength And Decency Of The Human Spirit.

Health Care's Complicated, Can Be Misrepresented, It's Personal, It Can Spark Fear, It's Expensive, And The People Who Have Got The Money Want To Keep It.

[they Let] Friendship With The Leaders In China Obscure Our Devotion To Freedom And Democracy When Those Kids Set Up In Tiananmen Square, And I Think It Was Wrong.

I Did A Lot Of Work On Energy Efficiency At The White House. By The Time I Left We Had Taken The Equivalent Of Six Hundred Cars A Year Off The Road In Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Just In The White House Complex.

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

I Hate That Man Obama More Than Any Man I've Ever Met, More Than Any Man Who Ever Lived.

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.

Most Illegal Immigrants Are Not By Nature Lawbreakers. Most Are Looking For The Chance To Live In Dignity. Nevertheless We Must Continue To Discourage Illegal Immigration For It Undermines Control Of Our Borders...and Even More Punishes Hard-working People Who Play By The Rules And Who Wait For Their Turn To Come To The United States. Therefore We Must Enforce Our Laws, But We Will Do So With Justice And Fairness.

New Information And Communications Technologies Can Improve The Quality Of Life For People With Disabilities, But Only If Such Technologies Are Designed From The Beginning So That Everyone Can Use Them. Given The Explosive Growth In The Use Of The World Wide Web For Publishing, Electronic Commerce, Lifelong Learning And The Delivery Of Government Services, It Is Vital That The Web Be Accessible To Everyone.

I'm Sorry, Could You Please Tell Me What The Definition Of The Word "is" Is?

We Know That When We Protect Our Oceans We're Protecting Our Future.

We Need A Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together. If We Have No Sense Of Community, The American Dream Will Wither.

Demand That Your Government Pays More Attention. It's Immoral That People In Africa Die Like Flies Of Diseases That No One Dies Of In The United States. And The More Disease There Is, The More Political Unrest There Will Be, Leading To More Darfurs, Which The U.s. Will Have To Pay To Fix.

The Light May Be Fading On The 20th Century, But The Sun Is Still Rising On America.

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!

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.

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.

If You Want A Future Of Shared Prosperity, Where The Middle Class Is Growing And Poverty Is Declining, Where The American Dream Really Is Alive And Well Again, And Where The United States Remains The Leading Force For Peace And Justice And Prosperity In A Highly Competitive World, You Have To Vote For Barack Obama.

We Have Seen A Man Dragged To Death In Texas Simply Because He Was Black. A Young Man Murdered In Wyoming Simply Because He Was Gay. In The Last Year Alone, We've Seen The Shootings Of African Americans, Asian Americans, And Jewish Children Simply Because Of Who They Were. This Is Not The American Way. We Must Draw The Line. Without Delay, We Must Pass The Hate Crimes Prevention Act And The Employment Non-discrimination Act. And We Should Reauthorize The Violence Against Women Act.

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