I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONGlobalisation 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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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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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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Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.
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If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
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I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
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I don’t think the Republicans can damage my character
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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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Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you’re never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.
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People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they’re going to do – instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
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We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn’t mean we need to try to have freedom from religion
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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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By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.
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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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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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We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.
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Over the past 7 years, we’ve tried to modernize the economy, and today what we’re doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.
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These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life’s meaning also require negative comparison to others?
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I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale.
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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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There’s a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there’s almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that’s out there.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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