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There Are Fewer Chemical Pollutants In The Air. Our Drinking Water Is Safer. Our Food Standards Have Been Raised. We've Cleaned Up More Toxic Waste Sites In Three Years Than The Previous Administrations Did In Twelve. The Environment Is Cleaner, And We Have Fought Off The Most Vigorous Assault On Environmental Protection Since We Began To Protect The Environment In 1970. We Are Moving In The Right Direction To The 21st Century.

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William J. Clinton

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There Are Fewer Chemical Pollutants In The Air. Our Drinking Water Is Safer. Our Food Standards Have Been Raised. We've Cleaned Up More Toxic Waste Sites In Three Years Than The Previous Administrations Did In Twelve. The Environment Is Cleaner, And We Have Fought Off The Most Vigorous Assault On Environmental Protection Since We Began To Protect The Environment In 1970. We Are Moving In The Right Direction To The 21st Century.

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...the Fact [is] That Our Borders Leak Like A Sieve: Those Things Cannot Be Permitted To Continue In Good Conscience.

More Than Any Other Nation On Earth, America Has Constantly Drawn Strength And Spirit From Wave After Wave Of Immigrants. In Each Generation, They Have Proved To Be The Most Restless, The Most Adventurous, The Most Innovative, The Most Industrious Of People. Bearing Different Memories, Honoring Different Heritages, They Have Strengthened Our Economy, Enriched Our Culture, Renewed Our Promise Of Freedom And Opportunity For All.

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

We Must All Be Profoundly Grateful For The Magnificent Achievements Of Our Forbearers In This Century. Yet Perhaps In The Daily Press Of Events, In The Clash Of Controversy, We Don't See Our Own Time For What It Truly Is - A New Dawn For America.

Technology Really Has Turned Out To Be A Wonderful Thing. . . . So Americans Really Are Tuning In In Positive Ways On The Internet.

Poverty, Discrimination, And Ignorance Restrict Growth.

I Don't Think The Republicans Can Damage My Character

Noting His Mother's Visit To Las Vegas The Weekend Before She Died. She Got To Go To Heaven Four Days Early.

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.

Four Years Ago Nobody But Nuclear Physicists Had Ever Heard Of The Internet. Today Even My Cat, Socks, Has His Own Web Page. I'm Amazed At That. I Meet Kids All The Time, Been Talking To My Cat On The Internet.

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

The Simple Fact Is That We Must Not-and We Will Not-surrender Our Borders To Those Who Wish To Exploit Our History Of Compassion And Justice.

[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 There's Grass In The Field, Play Ball!

America Can No Longer Afford To Get The Nobel Prizes While Our Competitors Get The Profits.

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.

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

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.

Only A Fool Does Not Look To Explain His Mistakes.

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.

I Would Never Approach A Small-breasted Woman.

The Other Thing We Have To Do Is To Take Seriously The Role In This Problem Of . . . Older Men Who Prey On Underage Women. . . . There Are Consequences To Decisions And . . . One Way Or The Other, People Always Wind Up Being Held Accountable.

People Ought To Be Going Over This, Finding Things They Don't Like. Congress Has Clearly Proved They Can Act In A Hurry. If There's Something Wrong With It, It Can Be Amended. If Something Needs To Be Kicked In, It Can Be Put In. If Something Needs To Be Taken Out, It Can Be Taken Out.

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

If, Two People Have Good Minds And They're Looking At Problems, If They Agree All The Time It Means One Of Them Is Not Thinking. If They Disagree All The Time, It Means One Of Them Is Not Thinking. They're Just Allowing Their Political Position To Dictate Their Position On An Issue. And I Think That's Unhealthy. And The Public Knows Better.

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.

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