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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONBeing 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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We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
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I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we’re living.
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Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
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Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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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.
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Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .
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