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The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

William J. Clinton

Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you’re never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Office Responsibility Running
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.’
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Political Politics Thinking
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Blue Opportunity Unique
Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Mother Vegas Weekend
Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Century Giving Turning Year Yesterday
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Creativity Education Responsibility
The Constitution is a radical document… it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Government Jobs Rights
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Giving Joy Ourselves Tradition
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Opportunity People Responsibility
But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Interest Truth
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Rewards Ties Working Together
Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Control Government Historical Inside
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Bringing Commitment People Race
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Gratitude Liberty Safety
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Future Inheritance Opportunity
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Hate Party People President

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

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