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Our Paradigm Now Seems To Be: Something Terrible Happened To Us On September 11, And That Gives Us The Right To Interpret All Future Events In A Way That Everyone Else In The World Must Agree With Us. And If They Don't, They Can Go Straight To Hell.

-William J. Clinton

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Our Paradigm Now Seems

William J. Clinton

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Our Paradigm Now Seems To Be: Something Terrible Happened To Us On September 11, And That Gives Us The Right To Interpret All Future Events In A Way That Everyone Else In The World Must Agree With Us. And If They Don't, They Can Go Straight To Hell.

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Mass Destruction

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If Saddam Rejects Peace And We Have To Use Force, Our Purpose Is Clear. We Want To Seriously Diminish The Threat Posed By Iraq's Weapons Of Mass Destruction Program.

Mass Destruction

Though Government Has An Important Role To Play In Meeting The Many Challenges That Remain Before Us, We Are Coming To Understand That No Organization, Including Government, Will Fully Succeed Without The Active Participation Of Each Of Us. Volunteers Are Vital To Enabling This Country To Live Up To The True Promise Of Its Heritage

Education Is Not A Privilege, It Is A Right!

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

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

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Mass Destruction

I Liked Working With Republicans. We Had Five Pretty Good Years After We Had That Bad Year In '95 That Culminated In Two Government Shutdowns. But Then They Really Decided That They Liked Being In The Majority For The First Time In Forty Years, And They Wanted To Get Some Things Done, And I Agreed, To Get Things I Wanted. It Was All Perfectly Transparent. Everybody Knew What They Wanted And What I Wanted.

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Some Day We Hope To Liberate Every Man On Earth From The Tendency As Old As Human History To Identify Our Strength And Manhood With The Ability To Control The Lives, Limit The Chances, And Doom The Dreams Of Women And Girls.

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There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured With What Is Right In America.

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Internet Access

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Over The Past 7 Years, We've Tried To Modernize The Economy, And Today What We're Doing Is Modernizing The Financial Services Industry, Tearing Down These Antiquated Walls, And Granting Banks Significant New Authority.

I Think That Most Small Amounts Of Marijuana Have Been Decriminalized In Some Places, And Should Be. We Really Need A Re-examination Of Our Entire Policy On Imprisonment...our Imprisonment Policies Are Counterproductive.

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

There Are Fewer Chemical Pollutants In The Air. Our Drinking Water Is Safer. Our Food Standards Have Been Raised. We've Cleaned Up More Toxic Waste Sites In Three Years Than The Previous Administrations Did In Twelve. The Environment Is Cleaner, And We Have Fought Off The Most Vigorous Assault On Environmental Protection Since We Began To Protect The Environment In 1970. We Are Moving In The Right Direction To The 21st Century.

Never Tell Anyone To Go To Hell Unless You Can Make 'em Go.

It's Only In America Where There Seems To Be This Sort Of Systematic Denial Of The Reality Of Global Warming At The Governmental Level, And In Too Many Sectors Of The High, The Private Sector. But It Looks To Me The Business Community May Actually Lead Us Toward A Clean Energy Future Almost In Spite Of Government Policy.

Torture Must Only Be Hypothetical Exception, Not Us Policy.

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.

Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

When I Was A Younger Man And Had A Life, I Owned An El Camino Pickup In The '70s. It Was A Real Sort Of Southern Deal. I Had Astroturf In The Back.

I Came Of Age Believing That, No Matter What Happened, I Would Always Be Able To Support Myself.

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.

Communications And Commerce Are Global; Investment Is Mobile; Technology Is Almost Magical; And Ambition For A Better Life Is Now Universal. We Earn Our Livelihood In Peaceful Competition With People All Across The Earth. Profound And Powerful Forces Are Shaking And Remaking Our World, And The Urgent Question Of Our Time Is Whether We Can Make Change Our Friend And Not Our Enemy.

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.

What Are The Needs Of The World? What Can I Do That Won't Be Done If I Don't Do It?

When Times Are Tough, Constant Conflict May Be Good Politics But In The Real World, Cooperation Works Better. After All, Nobody's Right All The Time, And A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day.

The First Thing You Ought To Do When You Find Yourself In A Hole Is Quit Digging. . . . Instead They Are Looking For A Bigger Shovel.

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Even If It Takes Changing The Law, The President Should Honor The Commitment The Federal Government Made To Those People And Let Them Keep What They Got.

That's What She [hillary Clinton] Is Done With Everything All Her Life. She Just Makes Something Good Happen, And That's What You Need.

I Don't Believe You Can Find Any Evidence Of The Fact That I Have Changed Government Policy Solely Because Of A Contribution.

Americans Long To Be United. After 9/11, We All Just Wanted To Be One Nation. Not A Single American On September The 12, 2001, Cared Who Won The Next Presidential Election.

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

The Constitution Is A Radical Document... It Is The Job Of The Government To Rein In People's Rights.

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

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