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Over the past 7 years, we’ve tried to modernize the economy, and today what we’re doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

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
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.”
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Hurt Kids Parent
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
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Hands Regret Responsibility
I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I’ll pay more, but it won’t solve the problem.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Believe Cutting Ground More Pay
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
They are cutting medicare
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Cutting Humorous Stupid
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Firsts People Twenties
[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
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Opportunity People Responsibility
I don’t think the Republicans can damage my character
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Character Humorous Stupid
I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Equivalent Taken White Years
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Day Freedom July Memorial
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
A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Assault Democracy Vote Weapons
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

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