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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONIf 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.
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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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.
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We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.
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Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.
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What you earn depends on what you learn.
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Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.
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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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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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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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We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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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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Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
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Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
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