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Well, First Of All, I Think That A Lot Of The Voters Who Are Voting For The Tea Party Candidates Have Really Good Impulses. That Is, They Believe That For Years And Years And Years, The People With Wealth And Power Or Government Power Have Done Well And Ordinary People Have Not. That's True.

-William J. Clinton

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Well, First Of All,

William J. Clinton

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Well, First Of All, I Think That A Lot Of The Voters Who Are Voting For The Tea Party Candidates Have Really Good Impulses. That Is, They Believe That For Years And Years And Years, The People With Wealth And Power Or Government Power Have Done Well And Ordinary People Have Not. That's True.

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Sarah, There's A Government Inside The Government, And I Don't Control It.

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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.

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Aids Is No Longer A Death Sentence For Those Who Can Get The Medicines. Now It's Up To The Politicians To Create The "comprehensive Strategies" To Better Treat The Disease.

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Demand That Your Government Pays More Attention. It's Immoral That People In Africa Die Like Flies Of Diseases That No One Dies Of In The United States. And The More Disease There Is, The More Political Unrest There Will Be, Leading To More Darfurs, Which The U.s. Will Have To Pay To Fix.

Over Time, The More We Bring China Into The World, The More The World Will Bring Freedom To China.

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

I Want To Say To You Is That James Madison And Thomas Jefferson Did Not Intend To Drive A Stake In The Heart Of Religion And To Drive It Out Of Our Public Life. What They Intended To Do Was To Set Up A System So That We Could Bring Religion Into Our Public Life And Into Our Private Life Without Any Of Us Telling The Other What To Do.

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.

The Purpose Of Affirmative Action Is To Give Our Nation A Way To Finally Address The Systemic Exclusion Of Individuals Of Talent On The Basis Of Their Gender, Or Race From Opportunities To Develop, Perform, Achieve And Contribute. Affirmative Action Is An Effort To Develop Systematic Approach To Open The Doors Of Education, Employment, And Business Development Opportunities To Qualified Individuals Who Happen To Be Members Of Groups That Have Experienced Long-standing And Persistent Discrimination.

I'm Pretty Good At Seeing Like A Lot Of Different Things Happening At Once And Putting Them In A Pattern And Figuring Out How You Can Rearrange It So It Might Have A Better Outcome.

I Have Never Had Sex With That Woman, Hillary Clinton.

...nixon's Subversion [of The Consititution] Consisted Of: One Presidental Lie; One Invocation Of Presidental Privilege, And Zero Criminal Offences.

I Have Always Believed That The Decision To Have An Abortion Generally Should Be Between A Woman, Her Doctor, Her Conscience, And Her God.

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.

What Works In The Real World Is Cooperation.

Politics Is For People Who Are Too Ugly To Get Into Showbusiness.

It Is Pretty Hard To Talk About Responsibility Unless You Have Exercised It Yourself.

[americans Know] The Traditional Values Of Islam, Devotion To Faith And Good Works, To Family And Society, Are In Harmony With The Best Of American Ideals.

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.

Putin Wants To Reestablish Russian Greatness, Not As The Cold War, But In 19th Century Empire Terms.

Today's Possibilities Are Not Tomorrows Guarantees.

If You Look At How Many Thousands And Thousands Of Pages, Web Pages, Are Being Added To The Internet Every Day, It's The Fastest Growing Organism In Human History For Communications.

Supporters Of Capital Punishment Bear A Special Responsibility To Ensure The Fairness Of This Irreversible Punishment.

If We Disagree And I Think I'm Right, I Just Go Ahead And Do What I Think Is Right. And Then She Tells Me, 'i Told You So.'

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.

In The Whole History Of This Country, We Have Probably Won More Friends From The Power Of Our Example Than From The Power Of Our Military.

If You Are Focusing Your Anger At Government, You Are Focusing Your Anger At All Of Us. Government Is Just A Personification Of This Country.

Personification

Hope I Lived Up To My Reputation For Being Slick.

President Obama Is Going To Have To Run Against Himself. In Tough Times, Nobody Can Defeat Himself.

Tonight, I Propose A 21st Century Crime Bill To Deploy The Latest Technologies And Tactics To Make Our Communities Even Safer. Our Balanced Budget Will Help Put Up To 50,000 More Police On The Street In The Areas Hardest Hit By Crime, And Then To Equip Them With New Tools From Crime-mapping Computers To Digital Mug Shots. We Must Break The Deadly Cycle Of Drugs And Crime.

I Know That The Precise Magnitude And Patterns Of Climate Change Cannot Be Fully Predicted. But Global Warming Clearly Is A Growing, Long-term Threat With Profound Consequences. And Make No Mistake About It, It Will Take Decades To Reverse.

I Don't Think I Would Have Become President If It Were Not For My School Music Program.

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.

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