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. CLINTONIn our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .
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Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into ‘info haves’ and ‘info have-nots.’ The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it’s often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.
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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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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
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In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation–and the ultimate source of all its wealth–is its people.
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Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
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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.
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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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Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there’s plenty of people below you but no one’s listening.
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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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Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well – a virtuous circle.
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Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
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We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create the “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
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