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The Bush Administration Continues To Coddle China, Despite Its Continuing Crackdown On Democratic Reform, Its Brutal Subjugation Of Tibet, Its Irresponsible Export Of Nuclear And Missile Technology... Such Forbearance On Our Part Might Have Made Sense During The Cold War When China Was The Counterweight To Soviet Power. It Makes No Sense To Play The China Card Now When Our Opponents Have Thrown In Their Hand.

-William J. Clinton

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The Bush Administration Continues To Coddle China, Despite Its Continuing Crackdown On Democratic Reform, Its Brutal Subjugation Of Tibet, Its Irresponsible Export Of Nuclear And Missile Technology... Such Forbearance On Our Part Might Have Made Sense During The Cold War When China Was The Counterweight To Soviet Power. It Makes No Sense To Play The China Card Now When Our Opponents Have Thrown In Their Hand.

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Sincerity? I Can Fake That.

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No One Can Change Yesterday, But We Can All Change Tomorrow.

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On Earth Day I Made A Commitment To Reduce Our Emissions Of Greenhouse Gases To 1990 Levels By The Year 2000. And I Asked For A Blueprint On How To Achieve This Goal. In Concert With All Other Nations, We Simply Must Halt Global Warming. It Is A Threat To Our Health, To Our Ecology, And To Our Economy. 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 Mission In This New Century Is Clear. For Good Or Ill, We Live In An Interdependent World. We Can't Escape Each Other. Therefore, We Have To Spend Our Lives Building A Global Community Of Shared Responsibilities, Shared Values, Shared Benefits.

If You Want To Have A Good Life You Have To Have Some Constructive Outlet For Your Feelings.

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

There Is A Huge Body Of Business Evidence Now Showing That Energy Savings Give Better Service At Lower Cost With Higher Profit. We Have To Tear Down Barriers To Successful Markets And We Have To Create Incentives To Enter Them.

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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

I'm Just Trying To Suppress My Natural Impulses And Get Back To Work.

[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.

If You Are Focusing Your Anger At Government, You Are Focusing Your Anger At All Of Us. Government Is Just A Personification Of This Country.

Personification

Nearly Everyone Will Lie To You, Given The Right Circumstances.

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Do You Think I'd Be Stupid Enough To Go Running With Someone I Was Foolin' With?

Let's Adopt Some Short-term Strategies To Get Growth Going And Then Let's Have A Long-term Debt Reduction Package. That's What I Think We Should Do And I Think It Will Work.

The Purpose Of Government Is To Rein In The Rights Of The People.

Downsizing Budgets May Be Necessary, But Downsizing Dreams Is A Decision To Be Disappointed.

Great Rewards Will Come To Those Who Can Live Together, Learn Together, Work Together, Forge New Ties That Bind Together.

Working Together

Character Is A Journey, Not A Destination.

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

The Kyoto Treaty Wasn't Perfect, But We Signed It, In Fact, Helped To Draft It. And I'm Very Proud Of It, It Was The World's First Commitment To Doing Something Comprehensive On Greenhouse Gases And Trying To Reduce Global Warming Before We Do Irreversible Damage To Many Civilizations Around The World.

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I Think What Breaks People Is Not Adversity; What Breaks People Is Thinking That Tomorrow Is Going To Be Just Like Yesterday. That's What's Numbing - If You Think You Can't Change, You Can't Be Better. And I Didn't Like That.

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The Fights I Fought... Cost A Lot --the Fight For The Assault-weapons Ban Cost 20 Members Their Seats In Congress. The Nra Is The Reason The Republicans Control The House.

Though We March To The Music Of Our Time, Our Mission Is Timeless.

Constituted A Critical Lapse In Judgement And A Personal Failure On My Part For Which I Am Solely Responsable

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

The Worst Thing About Not Being President Anymore Is I Was Disoriented For Three Weeks Because Nobody Every Played A Song When I Walked In.

I Have Always Believed That The Decision To Have An Abortion Generally Should Be Between A Woman, Her Doctor, Her Conscience, And Her God.

A World Without Walls Is The Only Sustainable World. . . . If The World Is Dominated By People Who Believe That Their Races, Their Religions, Their Ethnic Differences Are The Most Important Factors, Then A Huge Number Of People Will Perish In This Century.

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.

I Like The Job. That's What I'll Miss The Most... I'm Not Sure Anybody Ever Liked This As Much As I've Liked It.

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

And I'd Like To Say To The Senate, I Hope You Will Say Yes To A Stronger American Democracy In The Year 2000.

If We Want To Invest In The Prosperity Of Our Nation, We Must Invest In The Education Of Our Children So That Their Talents May Be Fully Employed.

Posterity Is The World To Come; The World For Whom We Hold Our Ideals, From Whom We Have Borrowed Our Planet, And To Whom We Bear Sacred Responsibility. We Must Do What America Does Best: Offer More Opportunity To All And Demand Responsibility From All.

Behind Every Great Man There Stands A Great Woman. Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Behind.

Behind Every Great Man

It Is A Commonplace Of American Life That Immigrants Have Made Our Country Great And Continue To Make A Very Important Contribution To The Fabric Of American Life. But...under The Pressures We Face Today, We Can't Afford To Lose Control Of Our Borders, Or To Take On New Financial Burdens, At A Time When We Are Not Adequately Providing For The Jobs, The Health Care, And The Education Of Our Own People. Therefore, Immigration Must Be A Priority For This Administration.

Because Primarily Of The Power Of The Internet, People Of Modest Means Can Band Together And Amass Vast Sums Of Money That Can Change The World For Some Public Good If They All Agree.

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.

Nothing In Our Lifetimes Has Been More Heartening Than When People Of The Former Soviet Union And Central Europe Broke The Grip Of Communism. We Have Aided Their Progress And I Am Proud Of It.

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.

I Have Never Believed We Had To Choose Between Either A Clean And Safe Environment Or A Growing Economy. Protecting The Health And Safety Of All Americans Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of Our Economy's Bottom Line. And Creating Thriving Companies And New Jobs Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink, The Food We Eat, Or The Natural Landscape In Which We Live. We Can, And Indeed Must, Have Both.

If You Live Long Enough, You'll Make Mistakes. But If You Learn From Them, You'll Be A Better Person. It's How You Handle Adversity, Not How It Affects You. The Main Thing Is Never Quit, Never Quit, Never Quit.

We Can't Afford To Lose Control Of Our Own Borders Or To Take On New Financial Burdens At A Time When We Are Not Adequately Providing For The Jobs, The Health Care And The Education Of Our Own People.

Nearly Every Problem Has Been Solved By Someone, Somewhere. The Challenge Of The 21st Century Is To Find Out What Works And Scale It Up.

And I Have A Plan To Do Even Better, To End Welfare As We Know It

We Have A Unique Opportunity To Unite America, Urban And Rural, Coastal And Midwestern, Red And Blue, Under The Banner Of A Truly Unifying National Effort. We Can Start Right Now.

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.

From The Small Clubs Of The Harlem Renaissance Where He Began Playing Saxophone To World Tours For The Biggest Of The Big Bands, Benny Carter Redefined American Jazz. From The Start, His Fellow Musicians Said The Way He Played The Sax Was Amazing. They Say That About Me, Too. (laughter.) But I Don't Think They Mean It In Quite The Same Way.

They Are Cutting Medicare

I Think The Democrats Are Going To Have To Be Willing To Give Up, Maybe, Some Short-term Political Gain By Whipping Up Fears On Some Of These Things - If It's A Reasonable Social Security Proposal, A Reasonable Medicare Proposal. We've Got To Deal With These Things. You Cannot Have Health Care Devour The Economy.

All Of Us In Our Administration Worked Hard To Support Families In Raising Their Children And Succeeding At Work.

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