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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONThe future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
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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.
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create the “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.
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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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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
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It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
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Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
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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.
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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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Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
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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.
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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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Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We – the American people – we are the solution.
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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
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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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