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Rarely Have Americans Lived Through So Much Change, In So Many Ways, In So Short A Time. Quietly, But With Gathering Force, The Ground Has Shifted Beneath Our Feet As We Have Moved Into An Information Age, A Global Economy, A Truly New World.

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Rarely Have Americans Lived

William J. Clinton

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Rarely Have Americans Lived Through So Much Change, In So Many Ways, In So Short A Time. Quietly, But With Gathering Force, The Ground Has Shifted Beneath Our Feet As We Have Moved Into An Information Age, A Global Economy, A Truly New World.

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I Made A Big Mistake. It Is Indefensible And I Am Sorry.

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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.

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It Is Inconceivable That Anyone Could Say We Have Tried To Hide Anything

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The Risk Is That As We Come Out Of This Recession, We'll Have So Much Debt To Finance, We'll Either Have To Have Inflation Or Very High Interest Rates To Continue To Borrow The Money, Or Both. That's A Risk.

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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.

A Significant Number Of Petroleum Geologists Believe That We Will Reach The Global Maximum Of Petroleum Extraction Within This Decade Or That We Have Already Reached It. Peak Oil Happened In 1970 In America, When Over Half Of Our Oil That We Gained From The Soil Was Exhausted ... This Is Very Disturbing, Regardless Of Global Warming.

Old Or Young, Healthy As A Horse Or A Person With A Disability That Hasn't Kept You Down, Man Or Woman, Native American, Native Born, Immigrant, Straight Or Gay - Whatever; The Test Ought To Be I Believe In The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights And The Declaration Of Independence. 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. I'm Building That Bridge To The 21st Century. That Ought To Be The Test.

If We Were Being Attached By Space Aliens, We Wouldn't Be Playing These Kinds Of Games.

There Is No Longer A Clear, Bright Line Dividing America's Domestic Concerns And America's Foreign Policy Concerns...if We Want America To Stay On The Right Track, If We Want Other People To Be On That Track And Have The Chance To Enjoy Peace And Prosperity, We Have No Choice But To Try To Lead The Train.

We Need Not Just A New Generation Of Leadership But A New Gender Of Leadership

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.

My Fellow Americans, We Can Only Build Our Bridge To The 21st Century If We Build It Together, And If We're Willing To Walk Arm-in-arm Across That Bridge Together.

American And Israel Share A Special Bond. Our Relationship Is Unique Among All Nations. Like America, Israel Is A Strong Democracy, A Symbol Of Freedom, And An Oasis Of Liberty, A Home To The Oppressed And Persecuted.

Shakespeare Wrote, Einstein Thought, Ataturk Built.

Nothing We Do In This Great Capital Can Change The Fact That Factories Or Information Can Flash Across The World, That People Can Move Money Around In The Blink Of An Eye... Nothing Can Change The Fact That Technology Can Be Adopted, Once Created, By People All Across The World And Then Rapidly Adapted In New And Different Ways By People Who Have A Little Different Take On The Way That Technology Works.

People Like Change In General, But Not In Particular.

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.

If You Want To Be Forgiven, You Have To Extend Forgiveness, Even To People Who Aren't Smart Enough To Ask For It.

We Respect The Individual Conscience Of Every American On The Painful Issue Of Abortion, But Believe As A Matter Of Law That This Decision Should Be Left To A Woman, Her Conscience, Her Doctor And Her God. But Abortion Should Not Only Be Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

A Few Years Back, This Guy [barack Obama] Would Be Serving Us Coffee.

The American People Have Now Spoken, But It's Going To Take A Little While To Determine What They've Said.

Abortion Should Not Only Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

Think Of The Great Spirits Of The Last 50 Years: Ghandi Killed, Not By A Pakistani Muslim, But One Of His Own Hindus, Who Hated Him Because He Wanted India For The Muslims, The Sikhs, For Everybody; Sadat, Killed By The Organization That Mr. Bin Laden's No. 2 Heads Now, Not By An Israeli, But By An Egyptian. My Friend Yitzhak Rabin -- After A Lifetime Defending Israel, Killed -- Not By A Palestinian Terrorist, But An Angry Israeli Because He Wanted To Lay Down Arms And Take Up Peace... Fanatics Are Defined By Their Hatreds; Free People By Their Humanity.

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