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. CLINTONMy 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
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Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.
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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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Golf is like life in a lot of ways – All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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I believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
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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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If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies – with more partners and fewer terrorists.
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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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When people are feeling insecure, they’d rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.
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Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
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If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
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These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life’s meaning also require negative comparison to others?
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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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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
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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.
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We don’t need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.
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