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We Know There Are Billions Of Stars And Planets Literally Out There, And The Universe Is Getting Bigger. We Know From Our Fancy Telescopes That Just In The Last Two Years More Than 20 Planets Have Been Identified Outside Our Solar System That Seem To Be Far Enough Away From Their Suns - - And Dense Enough - - That They Might Be Able To Support Some Form Of Life. So It Makes It Increasing Less Likely That We're Alone. But If We Were Visited Someday, I Wouldn't Be Surprised.

-William J. Clinton

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We Know There Are Billions Of Stars And Planets Literally Out There, And The Universe Is Getting Bigger. We Know From Our Fancy Telescopes That Just In The Last Two Years More Than 20 Planets Have Been Identified Outside Our Solar System That Seem To Be Far Enough Away From Their Suns - - And Dense Enough - - That They Might Be Able To Support Some Form Of Life. So It Makes It Increasing Less Likely That We're Alone. But If We Were Visited Someday, I Wouldn't Be Surprised.

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

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What Works In The Real World Is Cooperation.

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We Know That Progress Is Not Inevitable. But Neither Was Victory Upon These Beaches. Now, As Then, The Inner Voice Tells Us To Stand Up And Move Forward. Now, As Then, Free People Must Choose.

You Don't Have To Wait Till Your Party's In Power To Have An Impact On Life At Home And Around The World.

Just As War Is Freedom's Cost, Disagreement Is Freedom's Privilege.

Music Can Give You Your Dreams. It Will Teach You Hard Work, It Will Break Your Heart And Make You So Happy, You Can't Stand It. . . .i Don't Think I'd Have Been President If It Hadn't Been For Music.

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.

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I Believe That People Of My Income Group Should Pay More, And I Explained Why, But That Won't Necessarily Lift Overall Wage Levels.

Citizen Service Is The Very American Idea That We Meet Our Challenges Not As Isolated Individuals But As Members Of A True Community, With All Of Us Working Together. Our Mission Is Nothing Less Than To Spark A Renewed Sense Of Obligation, A New Sense Of Duty, A New Season Of Service.

The Best Example Of All, To Me, That Our Problems Are Both Personal And Cultural And Political And Social Is The Whole Condition Of The Middle Class Economically.

I Was Not Elected To Produce A Pile Of Vetoes.

Drugs Nearly Killed My Brother When He Was A Young Man And I Hate Them. He Fought Back. And I'm Really Proud Of Him. But I Learned Something In Going Through That Long Nightmare With Our Family. And I Can Tell You, Something Has Happened To Some Of Our Young People. They Simply Don't Think These Drugs Are Dangerous Anymore. Or They Think The Risk Is Acceptable.

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.

Follow The Trend Lines, Not The Headlines.

America Just Works Better When More People Have A Chance To Live Their Dreams.

I Think The Idea Of Moving To A Cleaner Energy Future And Doing More Energy Efficiency Makes Smart Sense.

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

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The Country Is Groaning And Moaning And Screaming For Change.

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The World Knows Of Rosa Parks Because Of A Single, Simple Act Of Dignity And Courage That Struck A Lethal Blow To The Foundations Of Legal Bigotry.

We Will Reduce The White House Staff By 25 Percent

When I First Came To Washington In The 1960s, Even At The Height Of The Vietnam War, Until The End There In '68 There Was A Certain Climate Of Cooperation. And Then In The Late Sixties And In Through The Seventies, Politics Began Getting More Mean. And Then From The Eighties On It Seemed To Be Institutionalized, This Personal Attack Business. And I Just Hate It.

I Ask You To Join In A Re-united States. We Need To Empower Our People So They Can Take More Responsibility For Their Own Lives In A World That Is Ever Smaller, Where Everyone Counts.... We Need A New Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together, Or The American Dream Will Continue To Wither. Our Destiny Is Bound Up With The Destiny Of Every Other American.

It Might Suprise You To Know I Think I Raised Them Too Much, Too

Food Is A Big Bargain In America, And You Can Go To These Places, We All Like Them, And You Get Big Portions, And They Taste Good. But They're Higher In Fat Than Ever Before. And Same Thing Has Happened, By The Way, Though, To School Menus. A Lot Of School Lunch Menus Have More Fat And More Sugar Than Ever Before.

I Believe That This Country's Policies Should Be Heavily Biased In Favor Of Nondiscrimination.

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.

What If [saddam] Fails To Comply And We Fail To Act, Or We Take Some Ambiguous Third Route, Which Gives Him Yet More Opportunities To Develop This Program Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction? ... Well, He Will Conclude That The International Community Has Lost Its Will. He Will Then Conclude That He Can Go Right On And Do More To Rebuild An Arsenal Of Devastating Destruction. And Some Day, Some Way, I Guarantee You He'll Use The Arsenal.

Mass Destruction

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.

I Admire That About The Republicans: The Evidence Does Not Faze Them. They Are Not Bothered At All By The Facts.

You Live In A Country That Makes It Harder To Raise Children Than Any Other Country In The World. You Vote For Me And I'll Give You Family Values.

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.

I Still Believe In A Place Called Hope.

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.

I Think If The White House Or The President Want To Say Anything About Our Conversations Or Anything I Tried To Do To Help Our Country With Their Support Or At Their Request, Then I Think They Should Be The Ones To Do That. But I Think That Former Presidents Should Do That.

One Of The Things That All Kids Are Taught By Their Parents Is This Old "sticks And Stones Will Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me."

[they Let] Friendship With The Leaders In China Obscure Our Devotion To Freedom And Democracy When Those Kids Set Up In Tiananmen Square, And I Think It Was Wrong.

I Might Not Have Been President If It Hadn't Been For School Music. Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music Programs.

I'm Proud To Say That There Is Not A Single Russian Nuclear Missile Pointed At An American Child.

Nuclear Missiles

I Want The Ability To Monitor High-tech Communications Among Far-flung Terrorists. I Want To Be Able To Have Our People Learn Their Plans Before They Strike. That's The Key.

If You Voluntarily Quit In The Face Of Adversity, You'll Wonder About It For The Rest Of Your Life.

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