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The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

William J. Clinton

It’s the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country People Population
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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Immigrant Law Permits Self Years
Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.
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Gratitude Liberty Safety
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
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Democracy Historical Transition
We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what’s better for their family.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Better Law Pay Speech
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
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Independent People Self Worth
Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Broken Clock Day Time Twice
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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

Half Oxford Steps
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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Economy People Wealth
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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Continue Illegal Immigration Yes
Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Hate Party People President
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
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Knows Mistake President
We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Government Gun Rights
But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Interest Truth

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

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