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Through Scientific Discovery And Technological Innovation, We Enlist The Forces Of The Natural World To Solve Many Of The Uniquely Human Problems We Face - Feeding And Providing Energy To Agrowing Population, Improving Human Health, Taking Responsibility For Protecting The Environment And The Global Ecosystem, And Ensuring Our Own Nation's Security. Scientific Discoveries Inspire And Enrich Us, Teaching Us About The Mysteries Of Life And The Nature Of The World.

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William J. Clinton

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Through Scientific Discovery And Technological Innovation, We Enlist The Forces Of The Natural World To Solve Many Of The Uniquely Human Problems We Face - Feeding And Providing Energy To Agrowing Population, Improving Human Health, Taking Responsibility For Protecting The Environment And The Global Ecosystem, And Ensuring Our Own Nation's Security. Scientific Discoveries Inspire And Enrich Us, Teaching Us About The Mysteries Of Life And The Nature Of The World.

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Interdependence

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Common Humanity

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American Politics

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Positive Energy

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Personification

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Mass Destruction

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Internet Access

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I Hate It When People Blame Someone Else And Don't Take Responsibility.

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Don't You Ever Orget That In The End, Our Future Is Tied To People, That It's More About Ideas Than A Tax.

Progress Changes Consciousness, And When People's Consciousness Changes, Then Their Awareness Of What Is Possible Changes As Well - A Virtuous Circle.

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

I Always Get Nervous When People Start Talking About Legacies.

I Take Full Responsability...for What We Did. It Was The Right Thing To Do.

Without A High Pain Threshold, You Can't Be A Successful President.

I Love And Revere The Rich And Proud History Of America. And I Am Determined To Take Our Best Traditions Into The Future. But With All Respect, We Do Not Need To Build A Bridge To The Past. We Need To Build A Bridge To The Future.

We Are Very Frustrated Because We Have A Supreme Court That Seems Determined To Say That The Wealthier Have More Right To Free Speech Than The Rest Of Us. For Example, They Say You Couldn't Stop Me From Spending All The Money I've Saved Over The Last Five Years On Hillary's Campaign If I Wanted To, Even Though It Would Clearly Violate The Spirit Of Campaign Finance Reform.

The Light May Be Fading On The 20th Century, But The Sun Is Still Rising On America.

Considering The Current Sad State Of Our Computer Programs, Software Development Is Clearly Still A Black Art, And Cannot Yet Be Called An Engineering Discipline.

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.

The Community Of Nations May See More And More Of The Very Kind Of Threat Iraq Poses Now: A Rogue State With Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Ready To Use Them Or Provide Them To Terrorists. If We Fail To Respond Today, Saddam And All Those Who Would Follow In His Footsteps Will Be Emboldened Tomorrow.

Mass Destruction

I Am Committed To Curbing The Influence Of Money In Our Political System.

Americans Long To Be United. After 9/11, We All Just Wanted To Be One Nation. Not A Single American On September The 12, 2001, Cared Who Won The Next Presidential Election.

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

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.

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.

The Most Ethical Administration In The History Of The Republic.

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

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 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.

Freedom Of Speech

It Depends Upon What The Meaning Of The Word 'is' Is. If 'is' Means 'is And Never Has Been' That's One Thing - If It Means 'there Is None', That Was A Completely True Statement.

I Tried Marijuana Once Or Twice In England, But Didn't Like It. I Didn't Inhale.

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

If You Believe In Making Change From The Bottom Up, If You Believe The Measure Of Change Is How Many People's Lives Are Better, You Know It's Hard And Some People Think It's Boring. Speeches Like This Are Fun, Actually Doing The Work Is Hard.

I Think It's Very Important, And I Think That What Young People Will Learn From My Experience Is That Even Presidents Have To Do That And There Are Consequences When You Don't. But I Also Think That There Will Be A Box Score, And There Will Be That One Negative, And Then There Will Be The Hundreds And Hundreds And Hundreds Of Times When The Record Will Show That I Did Not Abuse My Authority As President, That I Was Truthful With The American People.

I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two.

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

It Is Important To Me That Everybody Who Has Been Hurt Know That The Sorrow I Feel Is Genuine. First And Most Important, My Family, My Friends, My Staff, My Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky And Her Family And The American People. I Have Asked All For Their Forgiveness.

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

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

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

African Americans Watch The Same News At Night That Ordinary Americans Do.

African American

Constituted A Critical Lapse In Judgement And A Personal Failure On My Part For Which I Am Solely Responsable

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 All Do Better When We Work Together. Our Differences Do Matter, But Our Common Humanity Matters More.

Common Humanity

Working Together

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

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.

We Need Not Just A New Generation Of Leadership But A New Gender Of Leadership

Yesterday Is Yesterday. If We Try To Recapture It, We Will Only Lose Tomorrow.

I Mean My Life Was A Combination Of Fascination With Other People, With Politics, And With Policy, And The Impact Of Government Decisions On People's Lives And The Life Of Our Nation And The Life Of The World.

A Great Democracy Doesn't Make It Harder To Vote Than To Buy An Assault Weapon.

Assault Weapons

It's The Economy, Stupid.

If No One Consumes These Products, People Will Stop Roducing Them. They Will Not Build It If You Didn't Come.

You Can Put Wings On A Pig, But You Don't Make It An Eagle.

Undeniably, Character Does Count For Our Citizens, Out Communities, And Our Nation, And This Week We Celebrate The Importance Of Character In Our Individual Lives... Core Ethical Values Of Trustworthiness, Fairness, Responsibility, Caring, Respect, And Citizenship Form The Foundation Of Our Democracy, Our Economy, And Our Society... Instilling Sound Character In Our Children Is Essential To Maintaining The Strength Of Our Nation Into The 21st Century.

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.

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.

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?"

I May Not Have Been The Greatest President, But I've Had The Most Fun Eight Years.

I Can Spend Your Money Better Than You Can.

Better Than You

Sure Enough At Oxford, I Was Another Yank Half A Step Behind.

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

What We Believe In Is What Works.

She Got To Go To Heaven Four Days Early.

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.

The Worst Thing About Not Being President Anymore Is I Was Disoriented For Three Weeks Because Nobody Every Played A Song When I Walked In.

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.

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

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