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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.

-William J. Clinton

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My Father Left Me

William J. Clinton

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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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African American

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

Only Astrophysicists New About The Internet 20 Years Ago. Today My Cat Has A Website.

Character Doesn't Matter.

I Was Not Elected To Produce A Pile Of Vetoes.

Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

When Times Are Tough And People Are Frustrated And Angry And Hurting And Uncertain, The Politics Of Constant Conflict May Be Good. But What Is Good Politics Does Not Necessarily Work In The Real World. What Works In The Real World Is Cooperation.

I'm Just Trying To Suppress My Natural Impulses And Get Back To Work.

We [democrats] Have Got To Be Strong. When We Look Weak In A Time Where People Feel Insecure, We Lose. When People Feel Uncertain, They'd Rather Have Somebody Who's Strong And Wrong Than Somebody Who's Weak And Right.

We Should, All Of Us, Be Filled With Gratitude And Humility For Our Present Progress And Prosperity. We Should Be Filled With Awe And Joy At What Lies Over The Horizon. And We Should Be Filled With Absolute Determination To Make The Most Of It.

President Obama Started With A Much Weaker Economy Than I Did. Listen To Me, Now. No President - No President, Not Me, Not Any Of My Predecessors, No One Could Have Fully Repaired All The Damage That He Found In Just Four Years.

In Our Efforts To Battle Terrorism And Cyber Attacks And Biological Weapons, All Of Us Must Be Extremely Aggressive. We Must Protect Our People From Danger And Keep America Safe And Free.

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

The United States Should.... Avoid Unilateral Export Controls And Controls On Technology Widely Available In World Markets. Unilateral Controls Penalize U.s. Exporters Without Advancing U.s. National Security Or Foreign Policy Interests.

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.

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

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Though We March To The Music Of Our Time, Our Mission Is Timeless.

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

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.

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

People Can Quarrel With Whether We Should Have More Troops In Afghanistan Or Internationalize Iraq Or Whatever, But It Is Incontestable That On The Day I Left Office, There Were Unaccounted For Stocks Of Biological And Chemical Weapons.

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