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If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

William J. Clinton

They are cutting medicare
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Cutting Humorous Stupid
Talk to people about what our real choices are… Our way works better… Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Real Talking Thinking
These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life’s meaning also require negative comparison to others?
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Identity People Religion
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Bipolar Healing Helpful
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Reflection Science Technology
I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I’d like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he’s paid a price – God knows, he’s paid a price.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Games Second Chance Thinking
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

Listening People President
We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her…This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Children Country Girl Home People
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. CLINTON

Conflict Cooperation Hurt People Real
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Apology Family Friend Hurt People
Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well – a virtuous circle.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Circles People Progress
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Humorous Investigation Real Stupid
We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Government Gun Rights
America’s greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Citizen Country Greatness People
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Effort Republican Responsibility Thinking
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
It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Liberal Perjury Stupid Stupidity
For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values – our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Deepest Numbers People Value Years
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
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Gender Generations Needs
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Driving People Riding
We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Increase People Wells
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Business Improvement Motivational Self
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Class Example Political
Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

March Missions Time
Let’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Community Differences Fighting Responsibility
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Future Inheritance Opportunity

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