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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.

-William J. Clinton

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Some Day We Hope

William J. Clinton

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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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Common Humanity

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Common Humanity

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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

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You Don't Have To Be An Elected Official To Be A Public Servant.

Elected Officials

Public Servants

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Our Land Of New Promise Will Be A Nation That Meets Its Obligations, A Nation That Balances Its Budget, But Never Loses The Balance Of Its Values.

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It Is Dangerously Destabilizing To Have Half The World On The Cutting Edge Of Technology While The Other Half Struggles On The Bare Edge Of Survival.

That Everybody Can Do Something, Without Regard To How Old Or Young They Are, Rich Or Poor Or Middle Class They Are, How Busy Or Not Busy They Are And What Level Skills They Have. Everyone Can Do Something. And Everybody Should Do Something. ... And If You Do It, You'll Be Happier.

The Most Profound Security Threat We Face Today Is Global Warming....climate Change Has The Capacity To Change The Way All Of Us Live.

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You Live In The Age Of Interdependence. Borders Don't Count For Much Or Stop Much, Good Or Bad, Anymore.

Interdependence

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Sometimes When People Are Under Stress, They Hate To Think, And It's The Time When They Most Need To Think.

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman

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

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There's Nothing Wrong With Making Mistakes. Just Don't Respond With Encores.

Making Mistakes

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

The United States Should.... Avoid Unilateral Export Controls And Controls On Technology Widely Available In World Markets. Unilateral Controls Penalize U.s. Exporters Without Advancing U.s. National Security Or Foreign Policy Interests.

Ultimately, The Best Strategy To Ensure Our Security And To Build A Durable Peace Is To Support The Advance Of Democracy Elsewhere. Democracies Don't Attack Each Other.

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

Tonight, I Propose A 21st Century Crime Bill To Deploy The Latest Technologies And Tactics To Make Our Communities Even Safer. Our Balanced Budget Will Help Put Up To 50,000 More Police On The Street In The Areas Hardest Hit By Crime, And Then To Equip Them With New Tools From Crime-mapping Computers To Digital Mug Shots. We Must Break The Deadly Cycle Of Drugs And Crime.

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.

[illegal Immigration] Costs The Taxpayers Of The United States A Lot Of Money. And It's Unfair To Americans Who Are Working Every Day To Pay Their Own Bills. It's Also Unfair To A Lot Of People Who Have Waited In Line For Years And Years In Other Countries To Be Legal Immigrants.

I Want The Ability To Monitor High-tech Communications Among Far-flung Terrorists. I Want To Be Able To Have Our People Learn Their Plans Before They Strike. That's The Key.

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

What Really Happened In Vietnam Was- All These Things Are Away Games For The American Military. We're Not On Our Home Turf, Which Means To Succeed There Has To Be A Partner. And The Definition Of Partnership Is Someone Willing To Risk Their Lives In Their Home Area To Prevail Because They Think It's Necessary To Build A Decent Life And A Better Life For Their People.

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

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.

...more Important Than The Deficit, More Important Then Healthcare-more Important Than Anything-we Have Got To Do Something About Our Energy Strategy. Because If We Permit The Climate To Continue To Warm At An Unsustainable Rate, And If We Keep On Doing What We're Doing Until We're Out Of Oil And We Haven't Made The Transition, Then It's Inconceivable To Me That Our Children And Grandchildren Will Be Able To Maintain The American Way Of Life And That The World Won't Be Much Fuller Of Resource-based Wars Of All Kinds.

Millions Of People Of Color Still Experience Racism Daily.

I Haven't Eaten At A Mcdonald's Since I Became President.

You Should Have Disagreements With Your Leaders And Your Colleagues, But If It Becomes Immediately A Question Of Questioning People's Motives, And If Immediately You Decide That Somebody Who Sees A Whole New Situation Differently Than You Must Be A Bad Person And Somehow Twisted Inside, We Are Not Going To Get Very Far In Forming A More Perfect Union.

I Am Committed To Curbing The Influence Of Money In Our Political System.

The People Have Spoken, But It Will Take A While To Determine Exactly What They Said.

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

In The Budget I Will Present To You, We Will Try To Do More To Speed The Deportation Of Illegal Aliens Who Are Arrested For Crimes, To Better Identify Illegal Aliens In The Workplace As Recommended By The Commission Headed By Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We Are A Nation Of Immigrants. But We Are Also A Nation Of Laws. It Is Wrong And Ultimately Self-defeating For A Nation Of Immigrants To Permit The Kind Of Abuse Of Our Immigration Laws We Have Seen In Recent Years, And We Must Do More To Stop It.

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

Saddam Hussein Didn't Kill 3,100 People On Sept. 11. Osama Bin Laden Did, And As Far As We Know He's Still Alive.

We Can't Renew America Unless More Of Us, I Mean All Of Us, Are Willing To Join Churches.

I Mean, When's The Last Time We Elected A President Based On One Year Of Service In The Senate Before He Started Running? I Mean, He Will Have Been A Senator Longer By The Time He's Inaugurated, But Essentially Once You Start Running For President Full Time You Don't Have Time To Do Much Else.

Somehow We All End Up Paying For What We Do.

I Want To Say To You Is That James Madison And Thomas Jefferson Did Not Intend To Drive A Stake In The Heart Of Religion And To Drive It Out Of Our Public Life. What They Intended To Do Was To Set Up A System So That We Could Bring Religion Into Our Public Life And Into Our Private Life Without Any Of Us Telling The Other What To Do.

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