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The Information Age Is, First And Foremost, An Education Age, In Which Education Must Start At Birth And Continue Throughout A Lifetime. Last Year, From This Podium, I Said That Education Has To Be Our Highest Priority. I Have Something To Say To Every Family Listening To Us Tonight: Your Children Can Go On To College.... Because Of The Things That Have Been Done, We Can Make College As Universal In The 21st Century As High School Is Today. And, My Friends, That Will Change The Face And Future Of America.

-William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton

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The Information Age Is, First And Foremost, An Education Age, In Which Education Must Start At Birth And Continue Throughout A Lifetime. Last Year, From This Podium, I Said That Education Has To Be Our Highest Priority. I Have Something To Say To Every Family Listening To Us Tonight: Your Children Can Go On To College.... Because Of The Things That Have Been Done, We Can Make College As Universal In The 21st Century As High School Is Today. And, My Friends, That Will Change The Face And Future Of America.

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Almost Makes You Want To Go To Jail Out Here, Doesn't It?

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

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You Have To Make A Conscious Decision To Change For Your Own Well-being, And That Of Your Family And Your Country.

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My Father Left Me With The Feeling That I Had To Live For Two People, And That If I Did It Well Enough, Somehow I Could Make Up For The Life He Should Have Had. And His Memory Infused Me, At A Younger Age Than Most, With A Sense Of My Own Mortality. The Knowledge That I, Too, Could Die Young Drove Me Both To Try To Drain The Most Out Of Every Moment Of Life And To Get On With The Next Big Challenge. Even When I Wasn't Sure Where I Was Going, I Was Always In A Hurry.

What If [saddam] Fails To Comply And We Fail To Act, Or We Take Some Ambiguous Third Route, Which Gives Him Yet More Opportunities To Develop This Program Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction? ... Well, He Will Conclude That The International Community Has Lost Its Will. He Will Then Conclude That He Can Go Right On And Do More To Rebuild An Arsenal Of Devastating Destruction. And Some Day, Some Way, I Guarantee You He'll Use The Arsenal.

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The Economy Has Produced 6.1 Million Jobs Since I Became President, And If Michael Jordan Comes Back To The Bulls, It Will Be 6,100,001 Jobs.

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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.

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I Could Never Allow [tax] Cuts That Devastate Education For Our Children, That Pollute Our Environment, That End The Guarantee Of Health Care For Those Who Are Served Under Medicaid, That End Our Duty Or Violate Our Duty To Our Parents Through Medicare. I Just Couldn't Do That. As Long As I'm President, I'll Never Let It Happen.

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

The Established Order Has Too Many Self-protecting Economic Entities, And Not Enough People Who Yet Understand What It Takes To Change.

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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.

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The Era Of Big Government Is Over.

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I Wanted To Continue To Be Active On Those Things That I Cared About When I Was President Where I Could Still Have An Impact.

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.

I Did Attempt To Find Out If There Were Any Secret Government Documents That Revealed Things. If There Were, They Were Concealed From Me Too. And If There Were, Well I Wouldn't Be The First American President That Underlings Have Lied To, Or That Career Bureaucrats Have Waited Out. But There May Be Some Career Person Sitting Around Somewhere, Hiding These Dark Secrets, Even From Elected Presidents. But If So, They Successfully Eluded Me...and I'm Almost Embarrassed To Tell You I Did (chuckling) Try To Find Out.

No One Who Has Lived Through The Second Half Of The 20th Century Could Possibly Be Blind To The Enormous Impact Of Exchange Programs On The Future Of Countries.

We Want To Live Forever, And We're Getting There.

Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

We Should Scrub All Of Our Federal Regulations To Find Responsible Ways To Make Life Easier To Small Businesses, I Want To Be A Small Business President.

I Might Not Be The Same, But That's Not Important/no Freedom Till We're Equal, Damn Right I Support It

Only A Fool Does Not Look To Explain His Mistakes.

Politics Gives Guys So Much Power That They Tend To Behave Badly Around Women. And I Hope I Never Get Into That.

I Will Get Things Done For America.... Faced With Apathy, I Will Take Action. Faced With Conflict, I Will Seek Common Ground.... Faced With Adversity, I Will Persevere. I Will Carry This Commitment With Me This Year. I Am An Americorps Volunteer.

During The Sole Argument We Had When [chelsea] Was In High School, The Subject Of Which I Don't Even Remember, I Looked At Her And Said, 'as Long As You're In This House, Being President Is My Second Most Important Job'.

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.

By The End Of The First Month Of The 1995 Session, Each Senator Will Have Made More Money Than Any Person Who Works 40 Hours A Week At Minimum Wage For The Entire Year.

Politics Is For People Who Are Too Ugly To Get Into Showbusiness.

Simply Put, No Society Can Truly Flourish If It Stifles The Dreams And Productivity Of Half Its Population. Happily, I See Evidence All Over The World That Women Are Gaining Social And Economic Power That They Never Had Before. This Is Good News.

The New Rage Is To Say That The Government Is The Cause Of All Our Problems, And If Only We Had No Government, We'd Have No Problems. I Can Tell You, That Contradicts Evidence, History, And Common Sense.

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

There Are Always Going To Be People Who Want To Be President, And Some Days I'd Like To Give It To Them.

When We Put Aside Partisanship, Embrace The Best Ideas Regardless Of Where They Come From And Work For Principled Compromise, We Can Move America Not Left Or Right, But Forward.

In The New Economy, Information, Education, And Motivation Are Everything.

Self Improvement

If You Want A Future Of Shared Prosperity, Where The Middle Class Is Growing And Poverty Is Declining, Where The American Dream Really Is Alive And Well Again, And Where The United States Remains The Leading Force For Peace And Justice And Prosperity In A Highly Competitive World, You Have To Vote For Barack Obama.

Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility. If Our World Is To Meet The Challenges Of The Twenty-first Century We Must Harness The Energy And Creativity Of All Our Citizens.

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

Our Overriding Environmental Challenge Tonight Is The Worldwide Problem Of Climate Change, Global Warming, The Gathering Crisis That Requires Worldwide Action.

The Most Ethical Administration In The History Of The Republic.

The New Energy Future Is Decentralised, Entrepreneurial And Needs People Like You To Say 'give Me A Clean Car, Give Me Solar Shingles To Put On My Roof - Give Me A Clean Future'

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'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.

I Don't Like To Use The Word Sacrifice.

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

I Don't Think I Would Have Become President If It Were Not For My School Music Program.

I Personally Don't Believe We Ought To Be Raising Taxes Or Cutting Spending, Either One, Until We Get This Economy Off The Ground. I'll Pay More, But It Won't Solve The Problem.

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Part Of Our Essential Humanity Is Paying Respect To What God Gave Us And What Will Be Here A Long Time After We're Gone.

Long Distance Relationship

Every Time Bush Talks About Trust It Makes Chills Run Up And Down My Spine. The Way He Has Trampled On The Truth Is A Travesty Of The American Political System.

We Must Teach Our Children To Resolve Their Conflicts With Words, Not Weapons.

. . . Unfortunately, We Can't Control The Actions Of Everyone.

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.

The Price Of Doing The Same Old Thing Is Far Higher Than The Price Of Change.

You Know, I've Always Been Really Interested In This Stuff, And I'm Going To Read This.

Nasa Even Sent Chuck Berry's Music On A Space Probe Searching For Intelligent Life In Outer Space. Well, Now, If They're Out There, They're Duck Walking

The Problem With Ideology Is If You Got An Ideology, You Already Got Your Mind Made Up, You Know All The Answers, And That Makes Evidence Irrelevant And Argument A Waste Of Time, So You Tend To Govern By Assertion And Attack. The Problem With That Is That Discourages Thinking And Gives You Bad Results.

I Tried To Walk A Line Between Acting Lawfully And Testifying Falsely, But I Now Realize That I Did Not Fully Accomplish That Goal.

Let Us All Take More Responsibility Not Only For Ourselves And Our Families But For Our Communities And Our Country.

Justice May Be Blind, But We All Know That Diversity In The Courts, As In All Aspects Of Society, Sharpens Our Vision And Makes Us A Stronger Nation.

All My Life I've Been Interested In Other People's Stories. I Wanted To Know Them, Understand Them, Feel Them.

The Secret To Living A Full Life With No Regrets And To Staying Young Is To Figure Out What You Believe In And Fight For It. If You Lose, Don't Give Up. If You Win, Raise The Bar, And Then Rare Back And Do Something Else. And Remember That, With The Accumulation Of Years, Our Responsibilities To The Future Grow Greater, Not Less.

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.

When, President Bush Asks Me To Go With His Father To The Tsunami Impacted Areas And Help Raise Money, I Was Thrilled To Do That, Because I Think We Have To Always Keep Looking For Common Ground.

You Are The Most Powerful Cultural Force In The World.

We Cannot Become The World's Policeman, But Where Our Values And Our Interests Are At Stake, And Where We Can Make A Difference, We Must Act And We Must Lead. That Is Our Job And We Are Better, Stronger And Safer Because We Are Doing It.

Making A Difference

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.

There Is Nothing More Precious To A Parent Than A Child, And Nothing More Important To Our Future Than The Safety Of All Our Children.

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.

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.

When Galileo Discovered He Could Use The Tools Of Mathematics And Mechanics To Understand The Motion Of Celestial Bodies, He Felt, In The Words Of One Imminent Researcher, That He Had Learned The Language In Which God Recreated The Universe. Today We Are Learning The Language In Which God Created Life. We Are Gaining Ever More Awe For The Complexity, The Beauty, The Wonder Of God's Most Devine And Sacred Gift.

Let Me Be Clear: We Are Still A Nation Of Immigrants, And We Honor All Those Immigrants Who Are Working Hard To Become New Citizens.

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.

Let's Create An Integrated Global Community Where We Have Shared Benefits And Responsibilities, And We Don't Fight Because Of Our Differences.

That All Depends On What "is" Is.

Sometimes I Think The Environment In Which We Operate Is Entirely Too Secular. The Fact That We Have Freedom Of Religion Doesn't Mean We Need To Try To Have Freedom From Religion

When You're President, You Learn To Act Like You Know What You're Talking About. And It's A Great Skill.

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.

It Is A $270 Billion Cut In Medicare

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

Any Poll Is A Picture Of An Unfinished Horse Race Except The Election Day Polls.

We Find As Our Interdependence Increases That, On The Whole, We Do Better When Other People Do Better As Well.

Simply Put, Unsustainable Debt Is Helping To Keep Too Many Poor Countries And Poor People In Poverty.

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

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.

Promising Too Much Can Be As Cruel As Caring Too Little.

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