More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONNoting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.
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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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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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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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History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
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Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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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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I have said many times-if I hadn’t been exposed to music as a child I don’t think I would have been president.
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By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.
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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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Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
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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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But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
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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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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
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