I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That’s what’s numbing – if you think you can’t change, you can’t be better. And I didn’t like that.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONLiteracy 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.
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When people are feeling insecure, they’d rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.
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I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.
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Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
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The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
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I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.
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If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
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Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.
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We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.
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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.
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You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
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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.
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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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Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
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