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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONI believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
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I’ve gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It’s made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don’t.
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History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
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Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it’s responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.
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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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I misled people, including even my wife.
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Character doesn’t matter.
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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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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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We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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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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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.
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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
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A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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The era of big government is over.
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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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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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What you earn depends on what you learn.
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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.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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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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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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It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
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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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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.
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…the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
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