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One Of The Real Dilemmas We Have In Our Country And Around The World Is That What Works In Politics Is Organization And Conflict. That Is, Drawing The Sharp Distinctions. But In Real Life, What Works Is Networks And Cooperation. And We Need Victories In Real Life, So We've Got To Get Back To Networks And Cooperation, Not Just Conflict. But Politics Has Always Been About Conflict, And In The Coverage Of Politics, Information Dissemination Tends To Be Organized Around Conflict As Well.

-William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton

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One Of The Real Dilemmas We Have In Our Country And Around The World Is That What Works In Politics Is Organization And Conflict. That Is, Drawing The Sharp Distinctions. But In Real Life, What Works Is Networks And Cooperation. And We Need Victories In Real Life, So We've Got To Get Back To Networks And Cooperation, Not Just Conflict. But Politics Has Always Been About Conflict, And In The Coverage Of Politics, Information Dissemination Tends To Be Organized Around Conflict As Well.

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I Don't Like To Use The Word Sacrifice.

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We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Common Humanity

Working Together

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.

We Have A Unique Opportunity To Unite America, Urban And Rural, Coastal And Midwestern, Red And Blue, Under The Banner Of A Truly Unifying National Effort. We Can Start Right Now.

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Sometimes I Feel Like The Fire Hydrant Looking At A Pack Of Dogs.

Progress Changes Consciousness, And When People's Consciousness Changes, Then Their Awareness Of What Is Possible Changes As Well - A Virtuous Circle.

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

I Mean, If President Reagan Could Be An Actor And Become A President, If Michael Douglas Is Your Next Choice, Maybe I Could Become An Actor. And I've Got A Good Pension; I Can Work Cheap, Which Is Unusual Around Here.

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The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Creative Collaborators

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

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Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music And Arts Programs. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Do Math. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Read. And Most Important Of All, They're A Lot Of Fun.

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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.

I'm Pretty Good At Seeing Like A Lot Of Different Things Happening At Once And Putting Them In A Pattern And Figuring Out How You Can Rearrange It So It Might Have A Better Outcome.

If You Are Focusing Your Anger At Government, You Are Focusing Your Anger At All Of Us. Government Is Just A Personification Of This Country.

Personification

I Wanted To Continue To Be Active On Those Things That I Cared About When I Was President Where I Could Still Have An Impact.

No Wonder Americans Hate Politics When, Year In And Year Out, They Hear Politicians Make Promises That Won't Come True Because They Don't Even Mean Them - Campaign Fantasies That Win Elections But Don't Get Nations Moving Again

By Lifting The Weakest, Poorest Among Us, We Lift The Rest Of Us As Well.

You Are The Most Powerful Cultural Force In The World.

You Don't Have To Wait Till Your Party's In Power To Have An Impact On Life At Home And Around The World.

Education Is Not A Privilege, It Is A Right!

If You Go Against Someone, You Say, You Can't Vote For These Democrats, They Don't Have Good Values, They're Not Good People, They're Weak, They're Spineless, They're Don't Love America, They're Giving Aid And Comfort To Saddam Hussein, That's The Kind Of Thing I Think Is Bad For America, Because It Stops The Voters From Thinking. And Any Time You Stop Thinking In A Free Society You Get In Trouble.

If You Think The President Was Right To Open The Doors Of American Opportunity To Young Immigrants Brought Here As Children Who Want To Go To College Or Serve In The Military, You Should Vote For Barack Obama.

When Personal Freedom's Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It. That's What We Did In The Announcement I Made Last Weekend On The Public Housing Projects, About How We're Going To Have Weapon Sweeps

The First Thing I Had To Start With Was, You Know, We Don't Have A War. We Don't Have A Depression, We Don't Have A Cold War.

It Is Now Conceivable That Our Children's Children Will Know The Term Cancer Only As A Constellation Of Stars.

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.

I May Not Have Been The Greatest President, But I've Had The Most Fun Eight Years.

I Want To Talk About One Barrier That Has Not Been Broken. I Want You To Support Hillary [clinton] For Me, Too, Because I Want To Break A Ceiling. I Am Tired Of The Stranglehold That Women Have Had On The Job Of Presidential Spouse.

There Are Times When Only America Can Make The Difference Between War And Peace, Between Freedom And Repression, Between Life Death. We Cannot Save All The World's Children But We Can Save Many Of Them.

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.

The Most Ethical Administration In The History Of The Republic.

Food Is A Big Bargain In America, And You Can Go To These Places, We All Like Them, And You Get Big Portions, And They Taste Good. But They're Higher In Fat Than Ever Before. And Same Thing Has Happened, By The Way, Though, To School Menus. A Lot Of School Lunch Menus Have More Fat And More Sugar Than Ever Before.

Justice May Be Blind, But We All Know That Diversity In The Courts, As In All Aspects Of Society, Sharpens Our Vision And Makes Us A Stronger Nation.

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

Behind Every Great Man There Stands A Great Woman. Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Behind.

Behind Every Great Man

Volunteering Is An Act Of Heroism On A Grand Scale. And It Matters Profoundly. It Does More Than Help People Beat The Odds; It Changes The Odds.

To Build A Twenty-first-century Economy, America Must Revive A Nineteenth-century Habit--investing In The Common, National Economic Resources That Enable Every Person And Every Firm To Create Wealth And Value.

When People Are Feeling Insecure, They'd Rather Have Someone Who Is Strong And Wrong Rather Than Somebody Who Is Weak And Right.

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

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

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