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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.

William J. Clinton

I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That’s what’s numbing – if you think you can’t change, you can’t be better. And I didn’t like that.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Adversity Thinking Yesterday
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
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Hurt Kids Parent
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Children Future Safety
We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don’t see our own time for what it truly is – a new dawn for America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Achievement Country Grateful People
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Thinking White
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
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Champion Dignity Remember
Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Demand Excellence Levels
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Change Powerful World
Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Broken Clock Day Time Twice
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Community Immigration Principles
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it’s responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Cutting Growth Speed
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Caring Predictions Thinking
NASA even sent Chuck Berry’s music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they’re out there, they’re duck walking
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Ducks Intelligent Searching Space
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
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
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Democracy Historical Transition
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

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