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You Know, There Was A Recent Poll Which Said That Young People In The Generation Of The Students Here Felt It Was Far More Likely That They Would See A Ufo Than That They Would Draw Social Security... It's Very Important You Understand This. Once You Understand This, You Realize This Is Not An Episode From The X Files, And You're Not More Likely To See A Ufo If You Do Certain Specific Things.

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William J. Clinton

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You Know, There Was A Recent Poll Which Said That Young People In The Generation Of The Students Here Felt It Was Far More Likely That They Would See A Ufo Than That They Would Draw Social Security... It's Very Important You Understand This. Once You Understand This, You Realize This Is Not An Episode From The X Files, And You're Not More Likely To See A Ufo If You Do Certain Specific Things.

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This Is One Way That Wealthy Americans Could Really Contribute. They Could Put Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into The Infrastructure Bank, Be A Good Investment For Them, For Their Children, For Their Grandchildren, And They Would Directly Contribute To Revitalizing A Big Sector Of Middle-class Wages In America And Making Our Country More Productive, So That We Could Create More Opportunity. But I Think That We Could Get A Lot Of Grassroots Support From, Like, Local Chambers Of Commerce And Other Things If They Understood Exactly How This Infrastructure Bank Would Work.

We Should Make It A Crime Even To Attempt To Pollute. Our Children Should Grow Up Next To Parks, Not Poison.

If We Have The Right Preventive And Primary Care, If We Start Charging For Comprehensive Care In The Chronic Cases, 10 Percent Of The Cases Take Up Two-thirds Of The Medical Expenses, And If We Do More On Problems Like Childhood Obesity, That We Can, To Use The Parlance That's Popular In Washington, Bend The Cost Curve And Eventually Reconcile This So Our Costs Will Be Closer To Our Competitors And So We Can Cover Everybody.

If The Personal Freedoms Guaranteed By The Constitution Inhibit The Government's Ability To Govern The People, We Should Look To Limit Those Guarantees.

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I Like The Vegetables, The Fruits, The Beans, The Stuff I Eat Now...all My Blood Tests Are Good, And My Vital Signs Are Good, And I Feel Good, And I Also Have, Believe It Or Not, More Energy.

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[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.

If You Look At What's Happened To The Stock Market, If You Look At What's Happened To Housing Values, If You Look At What's Happened To Bank Loan Portfolios Because The Value Of Their Other Assets That They've Already Issued Loans Against Were Going Down, There Was A Pretty Good Argument For Trying To Pass Something At About This Level Of Investment With The Divisions As They Were - Unemployment, Food Stamps, And Tax Cuts, Aid To Education And Healthcare, And Job Creation.

My Major Political Identity Has Been As Her Spouse For The Last Decade And I Like It That Way.

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.

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In Our Own Country, We Have Seen America Pay A Terrible Price For Any Form Of Discrimination, And We Have Seen Us Grow Stronger As We Have Steadily Let More And More Of Our Hatreds And Our Fears Go. As We Have Given More And More Of Our People The Chance To Live Their Dreams. That Is Why The Flame Of Our Statue Of Liberty, Like The Olympic Flame Carried All Across America By Thousands Of Citizen Heroes Will Always Burn Brighter Than The Flames That Burn Our Churches, Our Synagogues, Our Mosques.

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I Refuse To Be Part Of A Generation That Celebrates The Death Of Communism Abroad With The Loss Of The American Dream At Home.

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Volunteering Is An Act Of Heroism On A Grand Scale. And It Matters Profoundly. It Does More Than Help People Beat The Odds; It Changes The Odds.

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The Struggle For Your Own Character Is The Struggle For The Nation's Character.

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

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Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility.

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

Nearly Everyone Will Lie To You, Given The Right Circumstances.

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.

Noting His Mother's Visit To Las Vegas The Weekend Before She Died. She Got To Go To Heaven Four Days Early.

That All Depends On What "is" Is.

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He Was A Martyr Of Peace But Was The Victim Of Hate. If People Can't Let Go Of The Hatred Of Their Enemies They Risk Sowing The Seeds Of Hate Among Themselves.

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Through Scientific Discovery And Technological Innovation, We Enlist The Forces Of The Natural World To Solve Many Of The Uniquely Human Problems We Face - Feeding And Providing Energy To Agrowing Population, Improving Human Health, Taking Responsibility For Protecting The Environment And The Global Ecosystem, And Ensuring Our Own Nation's Security. Scientific Discoveries Inspire And Enrich Us, Teaching Us About The Mysteries Of Life And The Nature Of The World.

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.

Americans Long To Be United. After 9/11, We All Just Wanted To Be One Nation. Not A Single American On September The 12, 2001, Cared Who Won The Next Presidential Election.

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Every Time Bush Talks About Trust It Makes Chills Run Up And Down My Spine. The Way He Has Trampled On The Truth Is A Travesty Of The American Political System.

Nafta Means Jobs. American Jobs, And Good Paying American Jobs. If I Didn't Believe That, I Wouldn't Support This Agreement.

I Wanted To Continue To Be Active On Those Things That I Cared About When I Was President Where I Could Still Have An Impact.

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Mass Destruction

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I Issued A Number Of Denials To People I Thought Needed To Hear Them

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Saddam Hussein Didn't Kill 3,100 People On Sept. 11. Osama Bin Laden Did, And As Far As We Know He's Still Alive.

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The Stimulus Is Our Bridge Over Troubled Waters. And If It's Invested Well, It'll Generate A Lot Of Economic Growth, And We'll Get Quite A Bit Of The Revenues Back.

Our Paradigm Now Seems To Be: Something Terrible Happened To Us On September 11, And That Gives Us The Right To Interpret All Future Events In A Way That Everyone Else In The World Must Agree With Us. And If They Don't, They Can Go Straight To Hell.

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Learning Improves In School Environments Where There Are Comprehensive Music And Arts Programs. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Do Math. They Increase The Ability Of Young People To Read. And Most Important Of All, They're A Lot Of Fun.

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If You Live Long Enough, You'll Make Mistakes. But If You Learn From Them, You'll Be A Better Person. It's How You Handle Adversity, Not How It Affects You. The Main Thing Is Never Quit, Never Quit, Never Quit.

I Recently Spoke With Barbara Jordan Of The U.s. Commission On Immigration Reform, And I Increasingly Believe We Need A System To Verify Employment Eligibility. The Commission's Recommendation Of A National Registry May Be The Way To Go.

I'm Just Trying To Suppress My Natural Impulses And Get Back To Work.

Posterity Is The World To Come; The World For Whom We Hold Our Ideals, From Whom We Have Borrowed Our Planet, And To Whom We Bear Sacred Responsibility. We Must Do What America Does Best: Offer More Opportunity To All And Demand Responsibility From All.

Just Because We Cannot Do Everything For Everyone Does Not Mean We Should Do Nothing For Anyone.

I Would Never Approach A Small-breasted Woman.

Each Generation Of Americans Must Define What It Means To Be An American.

What It Means To Be An American

Everybody Has A Gas-guzzling Car Because People Like Suvs. They Would Like Suvs If They Were Hybrid Vehicles That Had The Same Horsepower And Used Less Gasoline. Instead, What The Auto Manufacturers Are Doing Is Building Suvs That Are Hybrid Vehicles That Use The Same Amount Of Gasoline Because They Up The Horsepower. That's A Decision That They Make To Market Irresponsible Economic Behavior. The American People Like The Suvs, They Have Kids, They, They Need Them, They Get Around In Them, But We Have Options.

No Generation Has Had The Opportunity, As We Now Have, To Build A Global Economy That Leaves No-one Behind. It Is A Wonderful Opportunity, But Also A Profound Responsibility.

My View Is There Will Be Problems And Bad People As Long As The Earth Exists, And Since We're Moving Into A Completely Interdependent Global Environment, We're Better Off Building A World We'd Like To Live In When The United States Are Not The Only Military Superpower. That Is, We Need To Build A World Of Shared Responsibility, Shared Benefits, And Shared Commitment To Our Common Humanity.

I Try To Be Self-analytical, Both To Outline The Mistakes I Made In My Life And Try To Explain Why I Did, And The Things That On Balance I Did Pretty Well On.

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.

Our Overriding Environmental Challenge Tonight Is The Worldwide Problem Of Climate Change, Global Warming, The Gathering Crisis That Requires Worldwide Action.

What Are The Needs Of The World? What Can I Do That Won't Be Done If I Don't Do It?

When We Got Organized As A Country, [and] Wrote A Fairly Radical Constitution, With A Radical Bill Of Rights, Giving Radical Amounts Of Freedom To Americans, It Was Assumed That Americans Who Had That Freedom Would Use It Responsibly...when Personal Freedom Is Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It.

The Bush Administration Continues To Coddle China, Despite Its Continuing Crackdown On Democratic Reform, Its Brutal Subjugation Of Tibet, Its Irresponsible Export Of Nuclear And Missile Technology... Such Forbearance On Our Part Might Have Made Sense During The Cold War When China Was The Counterweight To Soviet Power. It Makes No Sense To Play The China Card Now When Our Opponents Have Thrown In Their Hand.

Great Rewards Will Come To Those Who Can Live Together, Learn Together, Work Together, Forge New Ties That Bind Together.

Working Together

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.

Everybody Counts, Everybody Deserves A Chance, Everybody Has A Responsible Role To Play And We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Working Together

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

I Don't Mind The Debates, They're Good For America, But We Shouldn't Be Out There Attacking Each Other All The Time.

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.

At The Same Time, Old Confrontations Have Taken On Frightening Urgency, Especially The India-pakistan Conflict Over Kashmir And The Violent Stalemate In The Middle East. Progress On These And Other Global Challenges Requires Us To Develop A Larger Strategy For American Foreign Policy, Rooted In A Fundamental Commitment To Move The World From Interdependence To An Integrated Global Community Committed To Peace And Prosperity, Freedom And Security.

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.

The Power Of Our Example Is More Important Than The Strength Of Our Military.

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

Pessimism Is An Excuse For Not Trying And A Guarantee To A Personal Failure.

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.

By The Time You Become The Leader Of A Country, Someone Else Makes All The Decisions.

The Simple Fact Is That We Must Not-and We Will Not-surrender Our Borders To Those Who Wish To Exploit Our History Of Compassion And Justice.

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.

Today, Many Companies Are Reporting That Their Number One Constraint On Growth Is The Inability To Hire Workers With The Necessary Skills.

The Most Powerful People On Earth Are Focus Groups.

To The Extent That Our Workers Compete With Low-paid Mexicans, It Is As Much Through Undocumented Immigration As Trade. This Pattern Threatens Low-paid, Low-skill U.s. Workers. The Combination Of Domestic Reforms And Nafta-related Growth In Mexico Will Keep More Mexicans At Home. It Is Likely That A Reduction In Immigration Will Increase The Real Wages Of Low-skilled Urban And Rural Workers In The United States.

When We Got Organized As A Country And We Wrote A Fairly Radical Constitution With A Radical Bill Of Rights, Giving A Radical Amount Of Individual Freedom To Americans, It Was Assumed That The Americans Who Had That Freedom Would Use It Responsibly.

The Great Thing About Not Being President Anymore Is I Can Say Whatever I Want, About Anything. Of Course [now], Nobody Really Cares What I Say. And Now I Have The Worst Of All Worlds -- My Wife Has Become The Secretary Of State, So No One Really Cares What I Say -- Unless I Mess Up.

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

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

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman, Miss Lewinsky. I Never Told Anybody To Lie, Not A Single Time - Never. These Allegations Are False.

Downsizing Budgets May Be Necessary, But Downsizing Dreams Is A Decision To Be Disappointed.

I Have Never Seen . . . So Slippery, So Disgusting A Candidate.

I Hate That Man Obama More Than Any Man I've Ever Met, More Than Any Man Who Ever Lived.

Thanks To The Leadership Of Vice President Gore, We Have A Government For The Information Age, Once Again A Government That Is A Progressive Instrument Of The Common Good, Rooted In Our Oldest Values Of Opportunity, Responsibility And Community, Devoted To Fiscal Responsibility, Determined To Give Our People The Tools They Need To Make The Most Of Their Own Lives In The 21st Century, A 21st Century Government For 21st Century America.

It Is A $270 Billion Cut In Medicare

Well, I Don't Have Much Job Security.

There's Never A Perfect Bipartisan Bill In The Eyes Of A Partisan.

We Want To Live Forever, And We're Getting There.

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

Life Is A Journey Towards Truth, We Have Something To Learn From Each Other, And Everybody Ought To Have A Chance To Make The Journey. So For Us, A Community Is Just Made Up Of Anybody Who Accepts The Rules Of The Game, Everybody Counts, Everybody Has A Role To Play, Everybody Deserves A Chance And We All Do Better When We Work Together

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

Though Our Challenges Are Fearsome, So Are Our Strengths. Americans Have Ever Been A Relentless, Questioning, Hopeful People.

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.

What We Believe In Is What Works.

If You Want To Live Like A Republican, Vote Like A Democrat.

I Knew From The Minute I Saw Her (hillary) That If I Got Involved With Her I Would Fall In Love With Her.

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

Let Us Rededicate Ourselves To The Principle That All Americans Have The Tools To Make The Most Of Their God-given Potential. For Indian Tribes And Tribal Members, This Means That The Authority Of Tribal Governments Must Be Accorded The Respect And Support To Which They Are Entitled Under The Law. It Means That American Indian Children And Youth Must Be Provided A Solid Education And The Opportunity To Go On To College. It Means That More Must Be Done To Stimulate Tribal Economies, Create Jobs, And Increase Economic Opportunities.

When Some Republican Governors Asked To Try New Ways To Put People On Welfare Back To Work, The Obama Administration Said They Would Only Do It If They Had A Credible Plan To Increase Employment By 20%. You Hear That? More Work. So The Claim That President Obama Weakened Welfare Reform's Work Requirement Is Just Not True.

If You Believe In A Security Strategy - A Strategy Of More Friends And Fewer Enemies, A Strategy Of Greater Cooperation And A Strategy Of Keeping America Better At Home As We Grow More Diverse - We Have To Build The Minds And Hearts To Build This Kind Of World.

For 60 Years, Social Security Has Meant More Than An Id Number On A Tax Form; More Than A Monthly Check In The Mail. It Reflects Our Deepest Values - Our Respect For Our Parents And Our Belief That All Americans Deserve To Retire With Dignity.

When Times Are Tough And People Are Frustrated And Angry And Hurting And Uncertain, The Politics Of Constant Conflict May Be Good. But What Is Good Politics Does Not Necessarily Work In The Real World. What Works In The Real World Is Cooperation.

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.

We Should, All Of Us, Be Filled With Gratitude And Humility For Our Present Progress And Prosperity. We Should Be Filled With Awe And Joy At What Lies Over The Horizon. And We Should Be Filled With Absolute Determination To Make The Most Of It.

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

Anyone Can Want Something; It's Those Who Believe In Their Goals That Achieve.

I Tried To Walk A Line Between Acting Lawfully And Testifying Falsely, But I Now Realize That I Did Not Fully Accomplish That Goal.

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 Have To Make A Conscious Decision To Change For Your Own Well-being, And That Of Your Family And Your Country.

I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century In Which We Create A Strong And Growing Economy To Preserve The Legacy Of Opportunity For The Next Generation By Balancing Our Budget In A Way That Protects Our Values And Ensuring That Every Family Will Be Able To Own And Protect The Value Of Their Most Important Asset, Their Home.

Just Because You Can't Do Everything, It Doesn't Mean You Shouldn't Do What You Can.

Marijuana Is Ten Times More Dangerous Than Twenty Years Ago.

Sometimes When People Are Under Stress, They Hate To Think, And It's The Time When They Most Need To Think.

Our Big Goal Should Be To Make Connection To The Internet As Common As Connection To Telephones Is Today.

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 Think That The Responsibility That The Democrats Had May Rest More In Resisting Any Efforts By Republicans In The Congress, Or By Me When I Was President, To Put Some Standards And Tighten Up A Little On Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac.

When I Took Office, Only High Energy Physicists Had Ever Heard Of What Is Called The Worldwide Web... Now Even My Cat Has Its Own Page.

I Don't Believe You Can Find Any Evidence Of The Fact That I Have Changed Government Policy Solely Because Of A Contribution.

All Of Us In Our Administration Worked Hard To Support Families In Raising Their Children And Succeeding At Work.

The New Century Demands New Partnerships For Peace And Security. The United Nations Plays A Crucial Role, With Allies Sharing Burdens America Might Otherwise Bear Alone. America Needs A Strong And Effective U.n. I Want To Work With This New Congress To Pay Our Dues And Our Debts. We Must Continue To Support Security And Stability In Europe And Asia - Expanding Nato And Defining Its New Missions, Maintaining Our Alliance With Japan, With Korea, With Our Other Asian Allies, And Engaging China.

African Americans Watch The Same News At Night That Ordinary Americans Do.

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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Which Highlights Customer Satisfaction, Workforce Empowerment, And Increased Productivity, Has Come To Symbolize America's Commitment To Excellence.

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