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We Are More Connected Than Ever Before, More Able To Spread Our Ideas And Beliefs, Our Anger And Fears. As We Exercise The Right To Advocate Our Views, And As We Animate Our Supporters, We Must All Assume Responsibility For Our Words And Actions Before They Enter A Vast Echo Chamber And Reach Those Both Serious And Delirious, Connected And Unhinged.

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William J. Clinton

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We Are More Connected Than Ever Before, More Able To Spread Our Ideas And Beliefs, Our Anger And Fears. As We Exercise The Right To Advocate Our Views, And As We Animate Our Supporters, We Must All Assume Responsibility For Our Words And Actions Before They Enter A Vast Echo Chamber And Reach Those Both Serious And Delirious, Connected And Unhinged.

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Torture Must Only Be Hypothetical Exception, Not Us Policy.

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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.

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We Simply Cannot Afford To Give The Reigns Of Government So Someone Who Will Double Down On Trickle Down

A Significant Number Of Petroleum Geologists Believe That We Will Reach The Global Maximum Of Petroleum Extraction Within This Decade Or That We Have Already Reached It. Peak Oil Happened In 1970 In America, When Over Half Of Our Oil That We Gained From The Soil Was Exhausted ... This Is Very Disturbing, Regardless Of Global Warming.

Presidents Are Not Permitted To Have Personal Feelings.

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.

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When I Think About The World I Would Like To Leave To My Daughter And The Grandchildren I Hope To Have, It Is A World That Moves Away From Unequal, Unstable, Unsustainable Interdependence To Integrated Communities - Locally, Nationally And Globally - That Share The Characteristics Of All Successful Communities.

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.

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 Struggle For Your Own Character Is The Struggle For The Nation's Character.

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

When I Was In Office I Expressed Admiration And Respect And Even Affection For Republicans That I Knew And Liked And Cared About, And I Tried To Find Ways To Work With Them. I Think The Democrats Should Do That, And Just Keep Trying To Lower The Temperature.

Throughout The Middle East, There Is A Great Yearning For The Quiet Miracle Of A Normal Life.

Taxing Less And Spending More.. It's Fun In The Short Run, But It's A Recipe For Disaster.

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.

I Don't Believe You Can Find Any Evidence Of The Fact That I Have Changed Government Policy Solely Because Of A Contribution.

The Only Preparation For Prospering In The Global Economy Is Investing In Ourselves.

Sometimes There Is A Difference In What Is Legal And What Ought To Be Done.

I Was Not Elected To Produce A Pile Of Vetoes.

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Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

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Everybody Counts, Everybody Deserves A Chance, Everybody Has A Responsible Role To Play And We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Working Together

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

I Never Thought Of Political Endeavors Primarily In Terms Of Power And Prestige, And I Never Thought Of Economic Endeavors Primarily In Terms Of Wealth And Position.

When People Think, Democrats Win.

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

I Am Trying To Be Honest With You And It Hurts Me. Now.

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

For Four Years We've Been Cooperating Exhaustively

We Have Seen A Man Dragged To Death In Texas Simply Because He Was Black. A Young Man Murdered In Wyoming Simply Because He Was Gay. In The Last Year Alone, We've Seen The Shootings Of African Americans, Asian Americans, And Jewish Children Simply Because Of Who They Were. This Is Not The American Way. We Must Draw The Line. Without Delay, We Must Pass The Hate Crimes Prevention Act And The Employment Non-discrimination Act. And We Should Reauthorize The Violence Against Women Act.

Only Astrophysicists New About The Internet 20 Years Ago. Today My Cat Has A Website.

The Hard Fact Is That So Long As Saddam Remains In Power, He Threatens The Well-being Of His People, The Peace Of His Region, And The Security Of The World.

We Live To Prove That Cooperation Works Better Than Conflict.

Politics Gives Guys So Much Power That They Tend To Behave Badly Around Women. And I Hope I Never Get Into That.

As We Have Throughout This Century, We Will Lead With The Power Of Our Example, But Be Prepared, When Necessary, To Make An Example Of Our Power.

I Misled People, Including Even My Wife.

In Speaking Powerfully And Eloquently For Mercy And Reconciliation To People Divided By Old Hatreds And Persecuted By Abuse Of Power, The Holy Father Was A Beacon Of Light Not Just For Catholics, But For All People.

The American People Have Now Spoken, But It's Going To Take A Little While To Determine What They've Said.

We Have A Moral Obligation To Make Sure The People Who Are Being Required To Work Have The Opportunity To Work. We Must Make Sure The Jobs Are There.

I Think The Democrats Are Going To Have To Be Willing To Give Up, Maybe, Some Short-term Political Gain By Whipping Up Fears On Some Of These Things - If It's A Reasonable Social Security Proposal, A Reasonable Medicare Proposal. We've Got To Deal With These Things. You Cannot Have Health Care Devour The Economy.

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.

We're Going To Build The Bridge To The 21st Century, We Have To Make Our Children Free - Free Of The Vise Grip Of Guns And Gangs And Drugs; Free To Build Lives Of Hope.

I'm Just Trying To Suppress My Natural Impulses And Get Back To Work.

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.

The United States Is Too Big And We Are Too Involved With Too Many People For Any President To Be Able To Take Actions That Will Be Universally Agreed To All Day, Every Day And Everywhere In The World.

If A President Of The United States Ever Lied To The American People, He Should Resign.

I Fully Share The Congress's Objective Of Promoting Nonproliferation And Combating Iran's Efforts To Acquire Weapons Of Mass Destruction (wmd) And Missile Delivery Systems. This Issue Remains At The Top Of The Agenda With Russia As Well As With Other Countries Whose Companies May Be Providing Such Assistance To Iran. In The Case Of Russian Entities' Cooperation With Iran, We Have Imposed Penalties Ten Times In The Past And Stand Ready To Apply Them Again Whenever Necessary.

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.

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

Behind Every Great Man There Stands A Great Woman. Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Behind.

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