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What We Should Be Doing [in Us] Is Accelerating Every Year Our Efforts To Reduce Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Have A Cleaner Energy Future, Have Much More Energy Conservation. And This Won't Hurt Anybody. This Will Create A New Economy For America, If We've Got The Discipline To Do It.

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William J. Clinton

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What We Should Be Doing [in Us] Is Accelerating Every Year Our Efforts To Reduce Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Have A Cleaner Energy Future, Have Much More Energy Conservation. And This Won't Hurt Anybody. This Will Create A New Economy For America, If We've Got The Discipline To Do It.

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Internet Access

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I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two.

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Without A High Pain Threshold, You Can't Be A Successful President.

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman

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I Got A Letter From 13-year-old Ryan From Belfast. Now, Ryan, If You're Out In The Crowd Tonight, Here's The Answer To Your Question. No, As Far As I Know, An Alien Spacecraft Did Not Crash In Roswell, New Mexico, In 1947. And, Ryan, If The United States Air Force Did Recover Alien Bodies, They Didn't Tell Me About It, Either, And I Want To Know.

I Hate It When People Blame Someone Else And Don't Take Responsibility.

There Is A Huge Body Of Business Evidence Now Showing That Energy Savings Give Better Service At Lower Cost With Higher Profit. We Have To Tear Down Barriers To Successful Markets And We Have To Create Incentives To Enter Them.

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.

I Believe I'm A Better Authority Than Anybody Else In America On My Own Wife. I Have Never Known A Person With A Stronger Sense Of Right And Wrong In My Life Ever.

[hillary Clinton] Isinsatiably Curious, She's A Natural Leader, She's A Good Organiser, And She's The Best Darn Change Maker I Ever Met In My Entire Life. This Is A Really Important Point For You To Take Out Of This Convention.

All Americans, Not Only In The States Most Heavily Affected But In Every Place In This Country, Are Rightly Disturbed By The Large Numbers Of Illegal Aliens Entering Our Country. The Jobs They Hold Might Otherwise Be Held By Citizens Or Legal Immigrants. The Public Services They Use Impose Burdens On Our Taxpayers. That's Why Our Administration Has Moved Aggressively To Secure Our Borders More By Hiring A Record Number Of New Border Guards, By Deporting Twice As Many Criminal Aliens As Ever Before, By Cracking Down On Illegal Hiring, By Barring Welfare Benefits To Illegal Aliens.

We Are Very Frustrated Because We Have A Supreme Court That Seems Determined To Say That The Wealthier Have More Right To Free Speech Than The Rest Of Us. For Example, They Say You Couldn't Stop Me From Spending All The Money I've Saved Over The Last Five Years On Hillary's Campaign If I Wanted To, Even Though It Would Clearly Violate The Spirit Of Campaign Finance Reform.

Work Is About More Than Making A Living, As Vital As That Is. It's Fundamental To Human Dignity, To Our Sense Of Self-worth As Useful, Independent, Free People.

Throughout His Many Years, He Enriched The Lives Of Countless Others And Served As A Model Of Generosity And Discipline To Those He Met, Fostering An Atmosphere Of Compassion, Harmony, And Unity. Sri Chinmoy Was A Leader, Humanitarian, Artist, Athlete, And Public Servant Who Will Be Sorely Missed. His Legacy Of Kindness, Reflection, And Resolve Will Endure For Many Years To Come.

What's A Man Got To Do To Get In The Top Fifty?

We Are A People Of Faith. We Have Been So Secure In That Faith That We Have Enshrined In Our Constitution Protection For People Who Profess No Faith. And Good For Us For Doing So. That Is What The First Amendment Is All About.

The Constitution Is A Radical Document... It Is The Job Of The Government To Rein In People's Rights.

Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century That Ends The Permanent Underclass, That Lifts Up The Poor And Ends Their Isolation, Their Exile, And They Are Not Forgotten Anymore.

We Need To Be Creating A World That We Would Like To Live In When We're Not The Biggest Power On The Block.

Thomas Jefferson Understood The Greater Purpose Of The Liberty That Our Founding Fathers Sought During The Creation Of Our Nation. Although It Was Against The British That The Colonists Fought For Political Rights, The True Source Of The Rights Of Man Was Clearly Stated In The Declaration Of Independence. Jefferson Wrote That All Humans Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights . . . . It Was Self-evident To Him That Denying These Rights Was Wrong And That He And Others Must Struggle To Win What Was Theirs.

Part Of Our Essential Humanity Is Paying Respect To What God Gave Us And What Will Be Here A Long Time After We're Gone.

Long Distance Relationship

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

This Will Arguably Be The Third Great Revolution Of America, If We Can Prove That We Literally Can Live Without Having A Dominant European Culture.

When I Started Out In Public Life There Used To Be A Saying We'd Hear From Time To Time, That Every Man Who Runs For Public Office Will Claim That He Was Born In A Log Cabin He Built With His Own Hands. Well, My Mother Knew Better. And She Made Sure I Did Too.

We Know That When We Protect Our Oceans We're Protecting Our Future.

I Liked Working With Republicans. We Had Five Pretty Good Years After We Had That Bad Year In '95 That Culminated In Two Government Shutdowns. But Then They Really Decided That They Liked Being In The Majority For The First Time In Forty Years, And They Wanted To Get Some Things Done, And I Agreed, To Get Things I Wanted. It Was All Perfectly Transparent. Everybody Knew What They Wanted And What I Wanted.

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.

[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.

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