We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONWhen 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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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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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.
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I believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
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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.
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I don’t think the Republicans can damage my character
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Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.
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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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The era of big government is over.
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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.
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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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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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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
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You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
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He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can’t let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.
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American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
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When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
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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.
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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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When it comes to anything that’s social, whether it’s your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
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[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
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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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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
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Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We – the American people – we are the solution.
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
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