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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONBeing President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there’s plenty of people below you but no one’s listening.
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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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.’
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
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A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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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.
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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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We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
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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.
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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.
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The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
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Talk to people about what our real choices are… Our way works better… Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.
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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.
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Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
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