William J. Clinton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.
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Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
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People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.
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Character is a journey, not a destination.
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Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
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When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
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Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.
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I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the governments in Eastern Europe, even a totally controlled society cannot resist the winds of change that economics and technology and information flow have imposed in this world of ours. That is not an option. Our only realistic option is to embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow.
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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.
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We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.
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We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.
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I misled people, including even my wife.
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When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
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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.
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By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.
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The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.
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More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
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We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down
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It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.
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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
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I can spend your money better than you can.
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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.
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If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.
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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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There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.
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Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.
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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again
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