If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies – with more partners and fewer terrorists.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONTo build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit–investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
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For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values – our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
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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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Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
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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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In 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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What you earn depends on what you learn.
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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
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Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
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Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing – both personally and professionally.
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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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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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It simply doesn’t make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That’s wrong and we should stop it.
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One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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