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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.

-William J. Clinton

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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.

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Strength And Wisdom Are Not Opposing Values.

You Are The Most Powerful Cultural Force In The World.

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.

I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two.

Being President Is Like Running A Cemetery: You've Got A Lot Of People Under You And Nobody's Listening.

If Ever There Comes A Time When Everyone You Vote For Wins And They Do Everything You Think They Should Do, There Will Still Be A Gap Between What Is And What Ought To Be.

People Like Change In General, But Not In Particular.

We Must Work Tirelessly To Make Sure That Every Boy And Girl In America Who Is Up For Adoption Has A Family Waiting To Reach Him Or Her...this Is A Season Of Miracles, And Perhaps There Is No Greater Miracle Than Finding A Loving Home For A Child Who Needs One.

You Should Strive To Find Happiness Every Day And Not Believe That It Comes At The End Of The Journey.

What Works In The Real World Is Cooperation.

Our Campaign Is The Opposite Of 'competence.'

You Can't Be Involved In Modern American Politics Without Somebody Attacking You.

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Work Organizes Life. It Gives Structure And Discipline To Life.

The Real Differences Around The World Today Are Not Between Jews And Arabs; Protestants And Catholics; Muslims, Croats, And Serbs. The Real Differences Are Between Those Who Embrace Peace And Those Who Would Destroy It. Between Those Who Look To The Future And Those Who Cling To The Past. Between Those Who Open Their Arms And Those Who Are Determined To Clench Their Fists.

I'm Bill Clinton And I Think You Deserve A Change. That's Why I've Offered A Plan To Get The Economy Moving Again, Starting With A Middle-class Tax Cut.

It Depends Upon What The Meaning Of The Word 'is' Is.

In The Budget I Will Present To You, We Will Try To Do More To Speed The Deportation Of Illegal Aliens Who Are Arrested For Crimes, To Better Identify Illegal Aliens In The Workplace As Recommended By The Commission Headed By Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We Are A Nation Of Immigrants. But We Are Also A Nation Of Laws. It Is Wrong And Ultimately Self-defeating For A Nation Of Immigrants To Permit The Kind Of Abuse Of Our Immigration Laws We Have Seen In Recent Years, And We Must Do More To Stop It.

Promising Too Much Can Be As Cruel As Caring Too Little.

We Don't Need A Constitutional Amendment For Kids To Pray.

Along The Way They're (mlb) Going To Lose Millions Of More American Fans.

People Can Quarrel With Whether We Should Have More Troops In Afghanistan Or Internationalize Iraq Or Whatever, But It Is Incontestable That On The Day I Left Office, There Were Unaccounted For Stocks Of Biological And Chemical Weapons.

The Ideals That Bind Us Together Are As Old As Our Nation, But So Are The Forces That Pull Us Apart.

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.

My Father Left Me With The Feeling That I Had To Live For Two People, And That If I Did It Well Enough, Somehow I Could Make Up For The Life He Should Have Had. And His Memory Infused Me, At A Younger Age Than Most, With A Sense Of My Own Mortality. The Knowledge That I, Too, Could Die Young Drove Me Both To Try To Drain The Most Out Of Every Moment Of Life And To Get On With The Next Big Challenge. Even When I Wasn't Sure Where I Was Going, I Was Always In A Hurry.

Abortion Should Not Only Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

You Can't Blame The Administration And The Republicans For Taking Us Back To Deficits, For Spending The Social Security Surplus And Assaulting The Environment. That's What They Promised To Do In The Last Election.

Citizenship In The 21st Century Requires More Than Paying Your Taxes And Voting And Occasionally Running For Office. That Even If You're Never In Political Office, You Have Political Responsibilities. You Can Make Your Society Stronger And Better.

Torture Must Only Be Hypothetical Exception, Not Us Policy.

When You're President, You Have More Power To Help More People, But You Also Are The Prisoner Of Circumstances As Well, And Countervailing Political Forces More.

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

Presidents Are Not Permitted To Have Personal Feelings.

Islam Is One Of The Fastest-growing Faiths Within America, And America Needs To Show That We're Not Anti-islam. We Are For, For People Being Free And Having Opportunity Everywhere, That... We Did That In Bosnia, We Did That In Kosovo, We Did That In Numerous Other Places In The World.

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

It Appears That Some School Officials, Teachers, And Parents Have Assumed That Religious Expression Of Any Type Is Either Inappropriate Or Forbidden Altogether In Public Schools; However, Nothing In The First Amendment Converts Our Public Schools Into Religion-free Zones.

The United States Should.... Avoid Unilateral Export Controls And Controls On Technology Widely Available In World Markets. Unilateral Controls Penalize U.s. Exporters Without Advancing U.s. National Security Or Foreign Policy Interests.

Indeed, I Did Have A Relationship With Miss Lewinsky That Was Not Appropriate. In Fact, It Was Wrong.

If There's Grass In The Field, Play Ball!

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

We Cannot Build Our Own Future Without Helping Others To Build Theirs.

Making A Difference

I Spent A Lot Of Time When I Was President, Trying To End Wars, Prevent Killing, And Promote Understanding. What I Have Seen Is That Peace Works Better Than Conflict, And One Of The Best Manifestations Of It Is In Travel And Tourism.

Today’s Generation Of Young People Holds More Power Than Any Generation Before It To Make A Positive Impact On The World.

That's What She [hillary Clinton] Is Done With Everything All Her Life. She Just Makes Something Good Happen, And That's What You Need.

But The Truth Is, Countries Have To Do What Is Best In Each Instance To Pursue Both Their Interest And Their Values.

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