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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

William J. Clinton

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
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Digging Finding Firsts Yourself
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Opportunity People Responsibility
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
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Children Fighting Ties
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
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Kind Love People Two 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
Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Century Giving Turning Year Yesterday
Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Connections Goal Today
Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well – a virtuous circle.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Circles People Progress
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Attention Care People
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Apology Family Friend Hurt People
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Humorous Investigation Real Stupid
Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Humorous Lying Stupid
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Immigrant Law Permits Self Years

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