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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'

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The New Energy Future

William J. Clinton

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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'

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

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

We All Have To Learn To Live Together.

I Spent A Lot Of Time When I Was President, Trying To End Wars, Prevent Killing, And Promote Understanding. What I Have Seen Is That Peace Works Better Than Conflict, And One Of The Best Manifestations Of It Is In Travel And Tourism.

Elvis Presley Was The First And The Best. He Is My Favorite Of All Time.

Cooperation Will Save The Future. And America Should Lead It. Every Time Humanity Has Been In Danger Of Extinguishing Itself, Our Consciousness And Our Conscience Have Led Us To Come Together. That's The Big Issue Of The 21st Century.

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.

If Ever There Comes A Time When Everyone You Vote For Wins And They Do Everything You Think They Should Do, There Will Still Be A Gap Between What Is And What Ought To Be.

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.

When We Got Organized As A Country And We Wrote A Fairly Radical Constitution With A Radical Bill Of Rights, Giving A Radical Amount Of Individual Freedom To Americans, It Was Assumed That The Americans Who Had That Freedom Would Use It Responsibly.

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.

Constant Conflict Is Actually Often Good Politics. Because The More You Can Inflame Your Supporters The More Likely They Are To Show Up At Election Day. And If They're More Inflamed Than The Other Side, Even If The Other Side Has More People Agreeing With It, You'll Win, Because Your Crowd Will Show Up.

We Know There Are Billions Of Stars And Planets Literally Out There, And The Universe Is Getting Bigger. We Know From Our Fancy Telescopes That Just In The Last Two Years More Than 20 Planets Have Been Identified Outside Our Solar System That Seem To Be Far Enough Away From Their Suns - - And Dense Enough - - That They Might Be Able To Support Some Form Of Life. So It Makes It Increasing Less Likely That We're Alone. But If We Were Visited Someday, I Wouldn't Be Surprised.

One Of The Things That I Think We Have Learned Is That We Should All Be Very Careful About Making Predictions About The Future.

Politics Is Not Religion And We Should Govern On The Basis Of Evidence, Not Theology.

When You're President, The Democrats Got To Feel Good When They Walk In The Door If You're A Republican; If You're A Democrat, The Republican Has To Feel Like You're Listening. And You Should Be Listening.

Let Us Rededicate Ourselves To The Principle That All Americans Have The Tools To Make The Most Of Their God-given Potential. For Indian Tribes And Tribal Members, This Means That The Authority Of Tribal Governments Must Be Accorded The Respect And Support To Which They Are Entitled Under The Law. It Means That American Indian Children And Youth Must Be Provided A Solid Education And The Opportunity To Go On To College. It Means That More Must Be Done To Stimulate Tribal Economies, Create Jobs, And Increase Economic Opportunities.

The Fundamental Problem You Have Anywhere Is When People Think Their Lives And The Lives Of Their Children Don't Matter, They They Are Somehow Disposable, Just Like A Paper Napkin After A Lunch At A Restaurant Or Something, If We Want Our Freedom To Be In Deed As Well As Word In America, We Have To Make People Feel That Everybody Matters Again.

In Today's Knowledge-based Economy, What You Earn Depends On What You Learn. Jobs In The Information Technology Sector, For Example, Pay 85 Percent More Than The Private Sector Average.

[my Mom] Had This Amazing Attitude In The Face Of Everything, Including When She Got Cancer.

In Science, If The Last 50 Years Were The Age Of Physics, The Next 50 Years Will Be The Age Of Biology.

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.

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.

Just As War Is Freedom's Cost, Disagreement Is Freedom's Privilege.

Today, Many Companies Are Reporting That Their Number One Constraint On Growth Is The Inability To Hire Workers With The Necessary Skills.

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

I Was Also Very Concerned About Protecting My Family.

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

Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music And Arts Programs. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Do Math. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Read. And Most Important Of All, They're A Lot Of Fun.

Along The Way They're (mlb) Going To Lose Millions Of More American Fans.

An Innocent Bureaucratic Snafu.

Democracy Does Not Have To Be A Bloodsport, It Can Be An Honorable Enterprise That Advances The Public Interest.

Well, First Of All, I Think That A Lot Of The Voters Who Are Voting For The Tea Party Candidates Have Really Good Impulses. That Is, They Believe That For Years And Years And Years, The People With Wealth And Power Or Government Power Have Done Well And Ordinary People Have Not. That's True.

I Am Grateful To President George W. Bush For Pepfar, Which Is Saving The Lives Of Millions Of People In Poor Countries And To Both Presidents Bush For The Work We've Done Together After The South Asia Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina And The Haitian Earthquake.

If You Look At How Many Thousands And Thousands Of Pages, Web Pages, Are Being Added To The Internet Every Day, It's The Fastest Growing Organism In Human History For Communications.

I Think Just About Everybody Ought To Get A Second Chance And I'd Like To See It Worked Out, Because He (pete Rose) Brought A Lot Of Joy To The Game, And He Gave A Lot Of Joy To People, And He's Paid A Price - God Knows, He's Paid A Price.

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One Of The Things That I Realized When I Left Office Was That In The 1990's Citizens Across The World Applied More Power Than They Had Ever Had, As Compared With The Government, Because Of More People Living Under Democracies Than Dictatorships For The First Time, The Power Of The Internet, Which The Young Chinese Used To Basically Change China's Policy On The Sars Epidemic, And Shut It Down, And Because Of The Rise In Non-governmental Organizations Like My Foundation.

There Are Times When Only America Can Make The Difference Between War And Peace, Between Freedom And Repression, Between Life Death. We Cannot Save All The World's Children But We Can Save Many Of Them.

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Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

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The Most Ethical Administration In The History Of The Republic.

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.

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Let Us Never Forget The Greatest Untapped Market For American Enterprise Is Right Here In America, In The Inner Cities, In The Rural Areas.

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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.

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The Future Is Not An Inheritance, It Is An Opportunity And An Obligation.

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I Can Spend Your Money Better Than You Can.

Better Than You

Our New Immigrants Must Be Part Of Our One America. After All, They're Revitalizing Our Cities, They're Energizing Our Culture, They're Building Up Our Economy. We Have A Responsibility To Make Them Welcome Here, And They Have A Responsibility To Enter The Mainstream Of American Life. That Means Learning English And Learning About Our Democratic System Of Government. There Are Now Long Waiting Lines Of Immigrants That Are Trying To Do Just That. Therefore, Our Budget Significantly Expands Our Efforts To Help Them Meet Their Responsibility. I Hope You Will Support It.

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What We Believe In Is What Works.

I Want A Man Who Had The Good Sense To Marry Michelle Obama.

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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.

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Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

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Everybody Knows That I Have Tougher Ethics Rules Than Any Previous President.

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I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century That Ends The Permanent Underclass, That Lifts Up The Poor And Ends Their Isolation, Their Exile, And They Are Not Forgotten Anymore.

There Is A Government Within The Government Who Controll This And I Do Not Controll It

It Takes A Long Time To Turn A Big Country Around. Just Be Of Good Cheer And Keep Working On It.

I Believe We Have Made A Decision Now That Will Permit Us To Create An Economic Order In The World That Will Promote More Growth, More Equality, Better Preservation Of The Environment, And A Greater Possibility Of World Peace, We Are On The Verge Of A Global Economic Expansion That Is Sparked By The Fact That The United States At This Critical Moment Decided That We Would Compete, Not Retreat.

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

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.

I Think We Need To Push Harder, We The Democrats, Because It's An Open Door For The Republicans - Prosperity Centers.

We Live To Prove That Cooperation Works Better Than Conflict.

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I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century In Which We Create A Strong And Growing Economy To Preserve The Legacy Of Opportunity For The Next Generation By Balancing Our Budget In A Way That Protects Our Values And Ensuring That Every Family Will Be Able To Own And Protect The Value Of Their Most Important Asset, Their Home.

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

I Don't Know Whether It's The Finest Public Housing In America Or The Crown Jewel Of The American Penal System.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

When People Are Feeling Insecure, They'd Rather Have Someone Who Is Strong And Wrong Rather Than Somebody Who Is Weak And Right.

My Plan After Office Is To Get Up And Spend That Entire First Day Helping My Wife Move Into Her New Senatorial Office.

The Earth Is Warming At An Alarming Rate, We Are Running Out Of Fossil Fuels, And It Is Long Past Time For Us To Take Action To Correct These Problems.

When We Got Organized As A Country, [and] Wrote A Fairly Radical Constitution, With A Radical Bill Of Rights, Giving Radical Amounts Of Freedom To Americans, It Was Assumed That Americans Who Had That Freedom Would Use It Responsibly...when Personal Freedom Is Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It.

I Mean, You Know, This Idea That Somebody We Disagree With On Economic Or Social Policy Or Something We Have To Turn Into Some Kind Of Ogre Or Demon, I Think, Is A Mistake. I Mean, It's Like Telling The American People Or Half The American People That Don't Agree With You They're All Fools. That's Just Not True.

We Need A Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together. If We Have No Sense Of Community, The American Dream Will Wither.

I Try To Be Self-analytical, Both To Outline The Mistakes I Made In My Life And Try To Explain Why I Did, And The Things That On Balance I Did Pretty Well On.

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I Have Never Had Sex With That Woman, Hillary Clinton.

The First Thing I Had To Start With Was, You Know, We Don't Have A War. We Don't Have A Depression, We Don't Have A Cold War.

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.

I Ask You To Join In A Re-united States. We Need To Empower Our People So They Can Take More Responsibility For Their Own Lives In A World That Is Ever Smaller, Where Everyone Counts.... We Need A New Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together, Or The American Dream Will Continue To Wither. Our Destiny Is Bound Up With The Destiny Of Every Other American.

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I Still Believe In A Place Called Hope.

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.

The Stimulus Is Our Bridge Over Troubled Waters. And If It's Invested Well, It'll Generate A Lot Of Economic Growth, And We'll Get Quite A Bit Of The Revenues Back.

What We Need To Do Is To Have A Sensible Approach To Immigration. It Needs To Be Open. It Needs To Be Non-dogmatic And Non-bigoted. We Need To Be Firm But Reasonable In The Way We Deal With The Problem Of Illegal Immigration. And We Need To Try To Get As Many Of Our Immigrants Who Want To Do So To Become Citizens As Quickly As Possible So That The American People Will All See That This Is A Part Of The Process Of American History, Which Is A Good One For Our Country.

When You Get Asked Hundreds Of Questions, It's Not Possible To Remember The Answer To Every One.

Just Because We Cannot Do Everything For Everyone Does Not Mean We Should Do Nothing For Anyone.

I Always Get Nervous When People Start Talking About Legacies.

This Is A Huge Problem. If We Don't Deal With This Within Just A Few Years, You Will Have Island Nations Flooded; You Will Have The Agricultural Balance Of Most Countries Completely Changed; You Will Have A Dramatic Increase In The Number Of Severe, Unmanageable Weather Events... And The Good News Is That We Can Now Deal With This Problem - And Strengthen Our Economic Growth, Not Weaken It.

We Have A Chance Here To Prove That [rwanda], A Country That Almost Slaughtered Itself Out Of Existence, Can Practice Reconciliation, Reorganize Itself, Focus On Tomorrow And Provide Comprehensive, Quality Health Care With Minimal Outside Help.

What's A Man Got To Do To Get In The Top Fifty?

In Our Efforts To Battle Terrorism And Cyber Attacks And Biological Weapons, All Of Us Must Be Extremely Aggressive. We Must Protect Our People From Danger And Keep America Safe And Free.

I Want To Help Communities Put Welfare Recipients To Work Right Now, Without Delay, Repairing Schools, Making Their Neighborhoods Clean And Safe, Making Them Shine Again. There's Lots Of Work To Be Done Out There. Our Cities Can Find Ways To Put People To Work And Bring Dignity And Strength Back To These Families.

I Want To Nominate A Man Who's Cool On The Outside, But Who Burns For America On The Inside.

There's This Whole Problem Of Trafficking, Which Has Gotten Worse In The Economic Downturn, Which Disproportionately Affects Young Women, But Also Affects Some Young Men Who Are Sold Into Bondage, Into Basically Servitude For Indebted Work That They Can Often Never Escape From.

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

History Will Remember Nelson Mandela As A Champion For Human Dignity And Freedom, For Peace And Reconciliation.

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.

Finding Yourself

The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Creative Collaborators

I Want Our Nation To Take Responsibility To Make Sure That Every Single Child Can Look Out The Window In The Morning And See A Whole Community Getting Up And Going To Work. We Want These Young People To Know The Thrill Of The First Paycheck, The Challenge Of Starting That First Business, The Pride In Following In A Parent's Footsteps.

My Only Enemy Is Right-wing Religious Fundamentalism.

For Too Long We've Been Told About 'us' And 'them.' Each And Every Election We See A New Slate Of Arguments And Ads Telling Us That 'they' Are The Problem, Not 'us.' But There Can Be No 'them' In America. There's Only Us.

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

The Most Important Question Of The 21st Century Is Not What Or How Much, It Is 'how?' How Do You Propose To Turn Your Good Ideas Into Positive Changes In Other People's Lives? You Must Be The 'how Generation.'

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.

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.

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.

I Misled People, Including Even My Wife.

I Learned A Lot From The Stories My Uncle, Aunts, And Grandparents Told Me: That No One Is Perfect But Most People Are Good; That People Can't Be Judged Only By Their Worst Or Weakest Moments; That Harsh Judgements Make Hypocrites Of Us All; That A Lot Of Life Is Just Showing Up And Hanging On; That Laughter Is Often The Best, And Sometimes Only Response To Pain.

Edgar Wayburn Has Worked To Preserve The Most Breath-taking Examples Of The American Landscape. In Fact, Over The Course Of More Than A Half-century, Both As President Of The Sierra Club And As A Private Citizen, He Has Saved More Of Our Wilderness Than Any Person Alive.

President Obama's Approach Embodies The Values, The Ideas And The Direction America Has To Take To Build The 21st-century Version Of The American Dream: A Nation Of Shared Opportunities, Shared Responsibilities, Shared Prosperity, A Shared Sense Of Community.

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.

People Should Really Take Care When They Vote, And Pay More Attention To What People Say They're Going To Do - Instead Of Just How They Feel About How Things Are Going.

The Ideals That Bind Us Together Are As Old As Our Nation, But So Are The Forces That Pull Us Apart.

Heavy As They Are, The Costs Of Action Must Be Weighed Against The Price Of Inaction. If Saddam Defies The World And We Fail To Respond, We Will Face A Far Greater Threat In The Future. Saddam Will Strike Again At His Neighbors; He Will Make War On His Own People. And Mark My Words, He Will Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction. He Will Deploy Them, And He Will Use Them.

Mass Destruction

Our Policy Is Guided By The Principle That We Will Keep Unauthorized Aliens Out Of The United States, Welcome Legal Immigrants, And Protect Refugees From Harm. Our Solutions Rely On Working In Partnership With States And Communities.

We're Not Talking About A Few Rooms Here With Delicate Personal Matters Involved.

Without Question, Bicycling Is An Efficient, Economical And Environmentally Sound Form Of Transportation And Recreation. Bicycling Is A Great Activity For Families, Recreational Riders And Commuters. Hillary, Chelsea And I Have Bicycles.

The Country Is Groaning And Moaning And Screaming For Change.

When Personal Freedom's Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It. That's What We Did In The Announcement I Made Last Weekend On The Public Housing Projects, About How We're Going To Have Weapon Sweeps

I Have Said Many Times-if I Hadn't Been Exposed To Music As A Child I Don't Think I Would Have Been President.

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 Should Stay On The Right Track To The 21st Century. Opportunity Alone Is Not Enough. I Want To Build An America In The 21st Century In Which All Americans Take Personal Responsibility For Themselves, Their Families, Their Communities And Their Country.

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.

We Need To Be Creating A World That We Would Like To Live In When We're Not The Biggest Power On The Block.

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

If We Disagree And I Think I'm Right, I Just Go Ahead And Do What I Think Is Right. And Then She Tells Me, 'i Told You So.'

Being President Is Like Running A Cemetery: You've Got A Lot Of People Under You And Nobody's Listening.

A Preemptive Action Today, However Well-justified, May Come Back With Unwelcome Consequences In The Future. And Because... I've Done This. I've Ordered These Kinds Of Actions - I Don't Care How Precise Your Bombs And Your Weapons Are, When You Set Them Off, Innocent People Will Die.

Hope I Lived Up To My Reputation For Being Slick.

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.

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.

I Refuse To Be Part Of A Generation That Celebrates The Death Of Communism Abroad With The Loss Of The American Dream At Home.

It's The Biggest Public Health Problem In America, The Rising Rates Of Obesity Among Our Young People And Very Heavy Statistics Among Our Adult Population.

From New Hampshire Forward, For Reasons That Absolutely Mystified Me, The Press Thought The Most Important Issue In The Race Was The Middle Class Tax Cut. I Never Did Meet Any Voter Who Thought That.

If You Believe In The Values Of The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, The Declaration Of Independence, If You're Willing To Work Hard And Play By The Rules, You Are Part Of Our Family. And We're Proud To Be With You.

Even As People Take Pride In Their National Independence, We Know We Are Becoming More And More Interdependent.

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.

I Think The Idea Of Moving To A Cleaner Energy Future And Doing More Energy Efficiency Makes Smart Sense.

It Was Mario Cuomo's Great Gift And Our Good Fortune That He Was Both A Sterling Orator And A Passionate Public Servant. His Life Was A Blessing.

No Generation Has Had The Opportunity, As We Now Have, To Build A Global Economy That Leaves No-one Behind. It Is A Wonderful Opportunity, But Also A Profound Responsibility.

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.

[americans Know] The Traditional Values Of Islam, Devotion To Faith And Good Works, To Family And Society, Are In Harmony With The Best Of American Ideals.

Today's Possibilities Are Not Tomorrows Guarantees.

The Purpose Of Politics Is To Give People Tools To Make The Most Of Their Lives.

I Have Never Had Sexual Relations With Monica Lewinsky. I've Never Had An Affair With Her.

The Era Of Big Government Is Over.

If You Voluntarily Quit In The Face Of Adversity, You'll Wonder About It For The Rest Of Your Life.

The Seven Principles Of Kwanzaa - Unity, Self-determinat Ion, Collective Work And Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity And Faith -- Teach Us That When We Come Together To Strengthen Our Families And Communities And Honor The Lesson Of The Past, We Can Face The Future With Joy And Optimism.

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

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.

We Will Lower The Tax Burden On Middle Class Americans By Asking The Very Wealthy To Pay Their Fair Share. Middle Class Taxpayers Will Have A Choice Between A Children's Tax Credit Or A Significant Reduction In Their Income Tax Rate.

If You Go Against Someone, You Say, You Can't Vote For These Democrats, They Don't Have Good Values, They're Not Good People, They're Weak, They're Spineless, They're Don't Love America, They're Giving Aid And Comfort To Saddam Hussein, That's The Kind Of Thing I Think Is Bad For America, Because It Stops The Voters From Thinking. And Any Time You Stop Thinking In A Free Society You Get In Trouble.

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.

When We Make College More Affordable, We Make The American Dream More Achievable.

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