If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONWhen 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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Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We – the American people – we are the solution.
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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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Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
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For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values – our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
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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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I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
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The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
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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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Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
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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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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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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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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.
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Talk to people about what our real choices are… Our way works better… Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.
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The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
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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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People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they’re going to do – instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
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I misled people, including even my wife.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
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They are cutting medicare
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Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing – both personally and professionally.
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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.
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I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I’ll pay more, but it won’t solve the problem.
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The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
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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.
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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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