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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.

William J. Clinton

You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Home Impact Party
I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Equivalent Taken White Years
Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Change Powerful World
…the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Borders Facts Immigration
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Reflection Science Technology
Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Humorous Lying Stupid
Let’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Community Differences Fighting Responsibility
More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Leader People Purpose Themselves Thinking
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Conflict Cooperation Hurt People Real
Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you’re never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Office Responsibility Running
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?
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Identity People Religion
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Knows Mistake President
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.”
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Hurt Kids Parent
Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

March Missions Time
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
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Ducks Intelligent Searching Space
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Giving Joy Ourselves Tradition

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