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. CLINTONGlobalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
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Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
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More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
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Character doesn’t matter.
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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.
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We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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I was also very concerned about protecting my family.
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History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
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Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well – a virtuous circle.
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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.
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If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.
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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.
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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.’
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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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It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
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My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale.
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Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.
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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.
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If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
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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.
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