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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.

Bill Clinton

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
BILL CLINTON

Animal Bird Wings Yourself
The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.
BILL CLINTON

Answer Evidence Ideas Problem
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.
BILL CLINTON

Economic Force Global Hold Nature Water Wind
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
BILL CLINTON

Evidence Government Politics Religion Rule Theory
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
BILL CLINTON

Believe Kind Life Obligation Spiritual Worth
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.
BILL CLINTON

Change Idol Imagination Prevent Reflection Technology Value
So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
BILL CLINTON

Attachment Difference Honesty Modern Personal Politics
The Constitution is a radical document, it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.
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Constitution Document Government Job People Right
The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.
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Earth Focus People Powerful
Let’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.
BILL CLINTON

Community Creation Difference Ourselves Responsibility
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.
BILL CLINTON

Dignity Freedom Fundamental Human Independent Live People Work Worth
When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it. That’s what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we’re going to have weapon sweeps.
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Abuse Freedom Home Limitation Personal Weapon
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.
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Legal Rare Safety
Today’s possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.
BILL CLINTON

Future Possible Present
Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.
BILL CLINTON

Funny Greatness Stand Woman
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
BILL CLINTON

Care Cruelty Promise

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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