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We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

William J. Clinton

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Half Oxford Steps
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
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Continue Illegal Immigration Yes
I’ve gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It’s made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don’t.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Challenges Hands People
[Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she’s a natural leader, she’s a good organiser, and she’s the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Important Leader Natural
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. . . .
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Orientation Race People Religion Sexual
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Economy People Wealth
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Family Government Politician
What you earn depends on what you learn.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Cookies Fortune Information Internet Technology
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time – never. These allegations are false.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Allegations Lying Missing
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Digital Technology Worry
Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Control Government Historical Inside
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

Digging Finding Firsts Yourself
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
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
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 are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

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We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

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