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The Reagan-bush Years Have Exalted Private Gain Over Public Obligation, Special Interests Over The Common Good, Wealth And Fame Over Work And Family. The 1980s Ushered In A Gilded Age Of Greed And Selfishness, Of Irresponsibility And Excess, And Of Neglect.

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William J. Clinton

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The Reagan-bush Years Have Exalted Private Gain Over Public Obligation, Special Interests Over The Common Good, Wealth And Fame Over Work And Family. The 1980s Ushered In A Gilded Age Of Greed And Selfishness, Of Irresponsibility And Excess, And Of Neglect.

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Only The Police Should Have Handguns.

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Only A Fool Does Not Look To Explain His Mistakes.

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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.

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We Democrats Think The Country Works Better With A Strong Middle Class, Real Opportunities For Poor People To Work Their Way Into It And A Relentless Focus On The Future, With Business And Government Working Together To Promote Growth And Broadly Shared Prosperity. We Think "we're All In This Together" Is A Better Philosophy Than "you're On Your Own."

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.

When Some Republican Governors Asked To Try New Ways To Put People On Welfare Back To Work, The Obama Administration Said They Would Only Do It If They Had A Credible Plan To Increase Employment By 20%. You Hear That? More Work. So The Claim That President Obama Weakened Welfare Reform's Work Requirement Is Just Not True.

I Did Have A Relationship With Miss Lewinsky That Was Not Appropriate. In Fact, It Was Wrong. It Constituted A Critical Lapse In Judgment And A Personal Failure On My Part For Which I Am Solely And Completely Responsible.

People Will Vote For Someone Who [they Perceive] Is Strong And Wrong Before They Will Vote For Someone Who Appears Weak But Is Right.

The Most Powerful People On Earth Are Focus Groups.

I Love The Hrc. The Initials Are Great.

We Still Have Too Many Americans Who Give In To Their Fears Of Those Who Are Different From Them. Not So Long Ago, Swastikas Were Painted On The Doors Of Some African-american Members Of Our Special Forces At Ft. Bragg. They Are Special Forces. They Do Not Deserve To Have Swastikas On Their Doors.

Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility.

You Know, There Was A Recent Poll Which Said That Young People In The Generation Of The Students Here Felt It Was Far More Likely That They Would See A Ufo Than That They Would Draw Social Security... It's Very Important You Understand This. Once You Understand This, You Realize This Is Not An Episode From The X Files, And You're Not More Likely To See A Ufo If You Do Certain Specific Things.

When You're A Former President, You Have Much Less Power, But You Have A Lifetime Of Experience And Contacts And If You've Got The Energy, You Can Bring Influence To Bear On A Small But Still Fairly Substantial Number Of Things Where You Can Concentrate On It Because You Don't Have To Change The Subject When You Wake Up In The Morning And There's Something Else In The Newspaper.

Health Care's Complicated, Can Be Misrepresented, It's Personal, It Can Spark Fear, It's Expensive, And The People Who Have Got The Money Want To Keep It.

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

Our Big Goal Should Be To Make Connection To The Internet As Common As Connection To Telephones Is Today.

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.

There Are Two Kinds Of People In The World. Those Who Have Seen The Taj Mahal And Love It And Those Who Have Not Seen The Taj And Love It.

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.

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.

I Don't Think The Republicans Can Damage My Character

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.

We Are On The Right Track To The 21st Century. We Are On The Right Track, But Our Work Is Not Finished. What Should We Do? First, Let Us Consider How To Proceed. I Say The Question Is No Longer, "who's To Blame?" But "what To Do?"

It Simply Doesn't Make Any Sense For Us To Have Illegal Aliens In Our Custody In Our Courts And Then Let Them Go Back To Living Here Illegally. That's Wrong And We Should Stop It.

Over Time, The More We Bring China Into The World, The More The World Will Bring Freedom To China.

Our Campaign Is The Opposite Of 'competence.'

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.

I Was An Equal Opportunity Eater. Every Ethnic Group Got A Shot.

A Few Years Back, This Guy [barack Obama] Would Be Serving Us Coffee.

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.

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