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New Information And Communications Technologies Can Improve The Quality Of Life For People With Disabilities, But Only If Such Technologies Are Designed From The Beginning So That Everyone Can Use Them. Given The Explosive Growth In The Use Of The World Wide Web For Publishing, Electronic Commerce, Lifelong Learning And The Delivery Of Government Services, It Is Vital That The Web Be Accessible To Everyone.

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New Information And Communications Technologies Can Improve The Quality Of Life For People With Disabilities, But Only If Such Technologies Are Designed From The Beginning So That Everyone Can Use Them. Given The Explosive Growth In The Use Of The World Wide Web For Publishing, Electronic Commerce, Lifelong Learning And The Delivery Of Government Services, It Is Vital That The Web Be Accessible To Everyone.

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I Issued A Number Of Denials To People I Thought Needed To Hear Them

When I Was A Younger Man And Had A Life, I Owned An El Camino Pickup In The '70s. It Was A Real Sort Of Southern Deal. I Had Astroturf In The Back.

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 Want To Make It Very Clear That This Middle-class Tax Cut, In My View, Is Central To Any Attempt We're Going To Make To Have A Short-term Economic Strategy And A Long-term Fairness Strategy, Which Is Part Of Getting This Country Going Again.

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

Interdependence

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.

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

The Bible Is The Authoritative Word Of God And Contains All Truth.

Any President That Lies To The American People Should Have To Resign.

In Our Own Country, We Have Seen America Pay A Terrible Price For Any Form Of Discrimination, And We Have Seen Us Grow Stronger As We Have Steadily Let More And More Of Our Hatreds And Our Fears Go. As We Have Given More And More Of Our People The Chance To Live Their Dreams. That Is Why The Flame Of Our Statue Of Liberty, Like The Olympic Flame Carried All Across America By Thousands Of Citizen Heroes Will Always Burn Brighter Than The Flames That Burn Our Churches, Our Synagogues, Our Mosques.

I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two.

Fanatics Are Defined By Their Hatreds; Free People By Their Humanity.

I Believe That Those Who Promote Discrimination On The Basis Of Sexual Orientation Or Any Other Grounds Are Gravely Mistaken About The Values That Make Our Nation Strong. I Will Continue To Move My Administration In The Direction Of Compassion, Acceptance, And Understanding.

When I Took Office, Only High Energy Physicists Had Ever Heard Of What Is Called The Worldwide Web... Now Even My Cat Has Its Own Page.

I Think The Country Could Be Spared A Lot Of Agony And The Government Could Worry About Inflation And A Lot Of Other Problems If [nixon Would] Go On And Resign. [there Is] No Question That An Admission Of Making False Statements To Government Officials And Interfering With The Fbi And The Cia Is An Impeachable Offense.

I've Been In Politics Long Enough To Expect Criticism And Hostility. But I Was Unprepared For The Hatred I Get From Christians. Why Do Christians Hate So Much?.

Strength And Wisdom Are Not Opposing Values.

I Am In Support Of The Nra Position On Gun Control.

If You Come From A Wealthy Country With Open Borders, Unless You Seriously Believe You Can Kill, Imprison Or Occupy All Your Enemies, You Have To Make A World With More Friends And Fewer Enemies - With More Partners And Fewer Terrorists.

With Almost No Time To Decide, They [your Loved Ones] Gave The Entire Country An Incalculable Gift. They Saved The Capitol From Attack. They Saved God Knows How Many Lives. They Saved The Terrorists From Claiming The Symbolic Victory Of Smashing The Center Of American Government. And They Did It As Citizens. They Allowed Us To Survive As A Country That Could Fight Terror And Still Maintain Liberty And Still Welcome People From All Over The World From Every Religion And Race And Culture As Long As They Shared Our Values, Because ordinary People Given No Time At All To Decide Did The Right Thing.

Running Helps Me Stay On An Even Keel And In An Optimistic Frame Of Mind.

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'

I've Been Talking About Income Inequality In America For Twenty Years, And When I Was President, People Didn't Pay Much Attention To It, Probably Because Wages Were Going Up. But I Don't Think I've Given A Single Solitary Speech Since I Left Office That I Hadn't Talked About It. It's A Problem Around The World And Within The United States. So These People Have Put That On The Agenda.

I Knew From The Minute I Saw Her (hillary) That If I Got Involved With Her I Would Fall In Love With Her.

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