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

Bill Clinton

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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Grave Listening Oneself President
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
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Achievement Afford Dreams Education Government
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
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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Choice Himself Hold Man Measurement Success
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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Decline Illegal Move Unity
Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.
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Action Deep Difference Justice Legal Time Wisdom
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
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Build Future Help
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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Education Employment Invest Nation Ourselves Prosperity Talent
You can’t say you love your country and hate your government.
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Country Government Hate Love Yourself
I still believe in a place called Hope.
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Believe Hope Myself Place
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
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Care Cruelty Promise
I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.
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Evidence Fact Myself
I am trying to be honest with you and it hurts me. Now.
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Honesty Hurt Myself Try
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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Change Idol Imagination Prevent Reflection Technology Value
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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Economic Force Global Hold Nature Water Wind
Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
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Achievement Goal Leadership People Pursuit Stay Togetherness
Character is a journey, not a destination.
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Character Destination Journey One Liner
Character doesn’t matter.
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Character One Liner
So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
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Attachment Difference Honesty Modern Personal Politics
Let’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.
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Community Creation Difference Ourselves Responsibility
Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.
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Relationship
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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Children Future Important Ourselves Parents Precious
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
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Lose Past Prison
Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
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Dangerous Destruction Freedom Future Nation Safety World
No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.
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Change Inspirational Motivational Past
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
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Evidence Government Politics Religion Rule Theory
I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong.
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Abortion Government Myself People Wrong

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