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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONLet’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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Character doesn’t matter.
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In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation–and the ultimate source of all its wealth–is its people.
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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.
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On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who’s the last President to give you a balanced budget?
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To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit–investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
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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.
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I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
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When people are feeling insecure, they’d rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.
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One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
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Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
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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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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
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Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into ‘info haves’ and ‘info have-nots.’ The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it’s often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.
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I believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
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I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.
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