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Our Democracy Must Be Not Only The Envy Of The World But The Engine Of Our Own Renewal. There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured By What Is Right With America.

-William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton

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Our Democracy Must Be Not Only The Envy Of The World But The Engine Of Our Own Renewal. There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured By What Is Right With America.

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But The Truth Is, Countries Have To Do What Is Best In Each Instance To Pursue Both Their Interest And Their Values.

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Just Because You Can't Do Everything, It Doesn't Mean You Shouldn't Do What You Can.

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

The Power Of Our Example Is More Important Than The Strength Of Our Military.

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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.

There's Never A Perfect Bipartisan Bill In The Eyes Of A Partisan.

The Era Of Big Government Is Over.

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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.

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.

Work Organizes Life. It Gives Structure And Discipline To Life.

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.

I Know That The Precise Magnitude And Patterns Of Climate Change Cannot Be Fully Predicted. But Global Warming Clearly Is A Growing, Long-term Threat With Profound Consequences. And Make No Mistake About It, It Will Take Decades To Reverse.

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.

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I Mean My Life Was A Combination Of Fascination With Other People, With Politics, And With Policy, And The Impact Of Government Decisions On People's Lives And The Life Of Our Nation And The Life Of The World.

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I Support Lowering The Level Of Legal Immigration By A Moderate Amount At This Time. Legal Immigration Reform Must Be Based Upon Principles That Are Pro-family, Pro-work, And Pro-naturalization, Retaining Opportunities For Family Reunification As The Levels Are Lowered. We Must Not Let This Issue Become Divisive In This Country.

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.

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.

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.

It Simply Doesn't Make Any Sense For Us To Have Illegal Aliens In Our Custody In Our Courts And Then Let Them Go Back To Living Here Illegally. That's Wrong And We Should Stop It.

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.

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.

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

Turning 50 Gives Me More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows.

I Love The Book Signings, You Know, Because I Get To Talk To Real People, And A Staggering Number Of People Have Said Something Very Specific To Me. "the Family Leave Law Saved My Family," Or "made Our Lives Better," Or, "the Education Aid That You Provided Made It Possible For Me To Go To College." One Man At 50 Years Of Age Got His College Degree.

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.

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

Let Us Do The Work That Is Before Us, So That When Our Time Here Is Over We Will All Watch The Sun Go Down As We All Must, And Say Truly, We Have Prepared Our Children For The Dawn.

Any President That Lies To The American People Should Have To Resign.

We Have To Change The Whole Job Structure Of America. We Have Got To Basically Reorient Our Economy Toward The Future.

I Have Never Had Sex With That Woman, Hillary Clinton.

If No One Consumes These Products, People Will Stop Roducing Them. They Will Not Build It If You Didn't Come.

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

I Would Never Approach A Small-breasted Woman.

An Innocent Bureaucratic Snafu.

I Want To Nominate A Man Who's Cool On The Outside, But Who Burns For America On The Inside.

...nixon's Subversion [of The Consititution] Consisted Of: One Presidental Lie; One Invocation Of Presidental Privilege, And Zero Criminal Offences.

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.

Let Me Say This As Clearly As I Can: No Matter How Sharp A Grievance Or How Deep A Hurt, There Is No Justification For Killing Innocents.

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I Admire That About The Republicans: The Evidence Does Not Faze Them. They Are Not Bothered At All By The Facts.

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.

I'm Someone Who Had A Deep Emotional Attachment To 'starsky And Hutch.'

We [united States] Are The Only Military Superpower. We Have No Idea How Long This Is Going To Last, So We Ought To Get Every Bad Guy We Can And Fix Every Problem We Can.

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.

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