On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who’s the last President to give you a balanced budget?
WILLIAM J. CLINTONIn the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation–and the ultimate source of all its wealth–is its people.
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Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
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We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don’t see our own time for what it truly is – a new dawn for America.
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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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I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I’d like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he’s paid a price – God knows, he’s paid a price.
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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
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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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One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
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[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
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It’s the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
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In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation–and the ultimate source of all its wealth–is its people.
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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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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
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Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
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I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.
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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.
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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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Golf is like life in a lot of ways – All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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There’s a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there’s almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that’s out there.
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Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.
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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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