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We Simply Have To Transition From An Economy Based Almost Exclusively On Oil And Coal And Natural Gas To One That's Far More Diversified, That Uses Solar Energy, And Wind Energy, And The Power Of The Tides, And Bio-mass Energy, And Eventually, Develops Hydrogen.

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We Simply Have To

William J. Clinton

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We Simply Have To Transition From An Economy Based Almost Exclusively On Oil And Coal And Natural Gas To One That's Far More Diversified, That Uses Solar Energy, And Wind Energy, And The Power Of The Tides, And Bio-mass Energy, And Eventually, Develops Hydrogen.

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Let Me Say This As Clearly As I Can: No Matter How Sharp A Grievance Or How Deep A Hurt, There Is No Justification For Killing Innocents.

Positive Energy

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I Figured If I Could Get Really Good People Who Were Going To Be Able To Have A Big Impact In The World Over The Next Decade To Come Together Once A Year For Ten Years And Actually Sign A Pledge To Take Action Themselves, If We Did That Every Year For Ten Years We Could Do A Lot Of Good In The World. That's The Difference Between My Meeting And Any Other. If You Don't Want To Promise To Do Something, Don't Come To My Meeting, Stay Home.

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.

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We All Have To Learn To Live Together.

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I Like The Job. That's What I'll Miss The Most... I'm Not Sure Anybody Ever Liked This As Much As I've Liked It.

I Think What Breaks People Is Not Adversity; What Breaks People Is Thinking That Tomorrow Is Going To Be Just Like Yesterday. That's What's Numbing - If You Think You Can't Change, You Can't Be Better. And I Didn't Like That.

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Our Generation, Like The One Before Us, Must Choose. Without The Threat Of The Cold War, Without The Pain Of Economic Ruin, Without The Fresh Memory Of World War Ii's Slaughter, It Is Tempting To Pursue Our Private Agendas -- To Simply Sit Back And Let History Unfold. We Must Resist The Temptation.

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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.

The Conservative Republican Governors Tend To Be More Oriented Toward Trying To Work With Democrats And Getting Things Done.

When You Strip Away All The Little Things That Divide Us, It's Important To Remember How Tied We Are

When, President Bush Asks Me To Go With His Father To The Tsunami Impacted Areas And Help Raise Money, I Was Thrilled To Do That, Because I Think We Have To Always Keep Looking For Common Ground.

Nothing We Do In This Great Capital Can Change The Fact That Factories Or Information Can Flash Across The World, That People Can Move Money Around In The Blink Of An Eye... Nothing Can Change The Fact That Technology Can Be Adopted, Once Created, By People All Across The World And Then Rapidly Adapted In New And Different Ways By People Who Have A Little Different Take On The Way That Technology Works.

More People Can Be Great Leaders Than Think They Can, But They Need A Purpose Greater Than Themselves.

One Of The Things That I Think We Have Learned Is That We Should All Be Very Careful About Making Predictions About The Future.

I Mean, When's The Last Time We Elected A President Based On One Year Of Service In The Senate Before He Started Running? I Mean, He Will Have Been A Senator Longer By The Time He's Inaugurated, But Essentially Once You Start Running For President Full Time You Don't Have Time To Do Much Else.

And I Have A Plan To Do Even Better, To End Welfare As We Know It

The Kyoto Treaty Wasn't Perfect, But We Signed It, In Fact, Helped To Draft It. And I'm Very Proud Of It, It Was The World's First Commitment To Doing Something Comprehensive On Greenhouse Gases And Trying To Reduce Global Warming Before We Do Irreversible Damage To Many Civilizations Around The World.

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

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.

When You're President, The Democrats Got To Feel Good When They Walk In The Door If You're A Republican; If You're A Democrat, The Republican Has To Feel Like You're Listening. And You Should Be Listening.

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.

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.

I Have Never Believed We Had To Choose Between Either A Clean And Safe Environment Or A Growing Economy. Protecting The Health And Safety Of All Americans Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of Our Economy's Bottom Line. And Creating Thriving Companies And New Jobs Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink, The Food We Eat, Or The Natural Landscape In Which We Live. We Can, And Indeed Must, Have Both.

Success Is Not The Measure Of A Man But A Triumph Over Those Who Choose To Hold Him Back.

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