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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.

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William J. Clinton

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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.

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Mass Destruction

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The Most Powerful People On Earth Are Focus Groups.

We Live To Prove That Cooperation Works Better Than Conflict.

What We Should Be Doing [in Us] Is Accelerating Every Year Our Efforts To Reduce Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Have A Cleaner Energy Future, Have Much More Energy Conservation. And This Won't Hurt Anybody. This Will Create A New Economy For America, If We've Got The Discipline To Do It.

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

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

We Simply Have To Transition From An Economy Based Almost Exclusively On Oil And Coal And Natural Gas To One That's Far More Diversified, That Uses Solar Energy, And Wind Energy, And The Power Of The Tides, And Bio-mass Energy, And Eventually, Develops Hydrogen.

Talk To People About What Our Real Choices Are... Our Way Works Better... Stick With Us, Keep Talking And Think How Much Better It Will Be If We Keep Going Forward Together.

Sometimes There Is A Difference In What Is Legal And What Ought To Be Done.

Though Our Challenges Are Fearsome, So Are Our Strengths. Americans Have Ever Been A Relentless, Questioning, Hopeful People.

The Stimulus Is Our Bridge Over Troubled Waters. And If It's Invested Well, It'll Generate A Lot Of Economic Growth, And We'll Get Quite A Bit Of The Revenues Back.

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A Parent May Be Without A Job, But No Child Should Be Without A Doctor.

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Marijuana Is Ten Times More Dangerous Than Twenty Years Ago.

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The Community Of Nations May See More And More Of The Very Kind Of Threat Iraq Poses Now: A Rogue State With Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Ready To Use Them Or Provide Them To Terrorists. If We Fail To Respond Today, Saddam And All Those Who Would Follow In His Footsteps Will Be Emboldened Tomorrow.

Mass Destruction

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.

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.

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In General I Saw My Job As The First President Whose Full Term Would Be Served After The Cold War In A Global Information Society Where We Were Interdependent But Not Integrated. And Therefore, We Were Vulnerable To The Worst, And Able To Seize The Best, Of What's Going On In The World.

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.

Our Immigration Policy Is Focussed In Four Areas: First, Strengthening Border Control; Second, Protecting American Jobs By Enforcing Laws Against Illegal Immigrants At The Workplace; Third, Deporting Criminal And Deportable Aliens; Fourth, Giving Assistance To States Who Need It, And Denying Illegal Aliens Benefits For Public Services Or Welfare.

We Will Reduce The White House Staff By 25 Percent

Noting His Mother's Visit To Las Vegas The Weekend Before She Died. She Got To Go To Heaven Four Days Early.

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.

I Want To Make It Very Clear That This Middle-class Tax Cut, In My View, Is Central To Any Attempt We're Going To Make To Have A Short-term Economic Strategy And A Long-term Fairness Strategy, Which Is Part Of Getting This Country Going Again.

Some People Say Well We Need A Change. Hillary Clinton Is Been Around A Long, She Sure Has, And She's Sure Been Worth Every Single Year She's Put Into Making People's Lives Better.

I Love And Revere The Rich And Proud History Of America. And I Am Determined To Take Our Best Traditions Into The Future. But With All Respect, We Do Not Need To Build A Bridge To The Past. We Need To Build A Bridge To The Future.

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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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.

I'm Bill Clinton And I Think You Deserve A Change. That's Why I've Offered A Plan To Get The Economy Moving Again, Starting With A Middle-class Tax Cut.

When I Was In England, I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two, And I Didnt Like It, And I Didnt Inhale, And I Never Tried Again.

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.

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.

41, You Look Great. Love What You're Doing.

I Think If The White House Or The President Want To Say Anything About Our Conversations Or Anything I Tried To Do To Help Our Country With Their Support Or At Their Request, Then I Think They Should Be The Ones To Do That. But I Think That Former Presidents Should Do That.

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

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

What We Did With Deeming Rules Were Designed - It Was Designed To Keep Costs From Coming On To The Government That Should Be Borne By Families Of Immigrants Who Actually Have Incomes And Can Afford To Pay.

I Am Fascinated By This Partnership Between Lady Gaga And Tony Bennett. It's Magic And I Love It.

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.

If You Want To Live Like A Republican, Vote Like A Democrat.

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.

Nafta Means Jobs. American Jobs, And Good Paying American Jobs. If I Didn't Believe That, I Wouldn't Support This Agreement.

More Than Any Other Nation On Earth, America Has Constantly Drawn Strength And Spirit From Wave After Wave Of Immigrants. In Each Generation, They Have Proved To Be The Most Restless, The Most Adventurous, The Most Innovative, The Most Industrious Of People. Bearing Different Memories, Honoring Different Heritages, They Have Strengthened Our Economy, Enriched Our Culture, Renewed Our Promise Of Freedom And Opportunity For All.

When People Think, Democrats Win.

You Know, I've Always Been Really Interested In This Stuff, And I'm Going To Read This.

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.

Remember, Republican Economic Policies Quadrupled The Debt Before I Took Office And Doubled It After I Left. We Simply Can't Afford To Double-down On Trickle-down.

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

I Have News For The Forces Of Greed And The Defenders Of The Status Quo: Your Time Has Come - And Gone. It's Time For Change In America.

We Don't Need A Constitutional Amendment For Kids To Pray.

When I Started Out In Public Life There Used To Be A Saying We'd Hear From Time To Time, That Every Man Who Runs For Public Office Will Claim That He Was Born In A Log Cabin He Built With His Own Hands. Well, My Mother Knew Better. And She Made Sure I Did Too.

I Believe In Religious Liberty. I Believe In Freedom Of Speech. I Believe In Working Hard And Playing By The Rules. I'm Showing Up For Work Tomorrow.

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You Know What Higher Interest Rates Mean. To You It Means A Higher Mortgage Payment, A Higher Car Payment, A Higher Credit Card Payment. To Our Economy, It Means Business People Will Not Borrow As Much Money, Invest As Much Money, Create As Many New Jobs, Create As Much Wealth, Raise As Many Raises.

When I Leave The Office On January 20th, I Will Leave Even More Idealistic Than I Was The Day I Took The Oath Of Office.

When It Comes To Anything That's Social, Whether It's Your Family, Your School, Your Community, Your Business Or Your Country, Winning Is A Team Sport.

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