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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

It simply doesn’t make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That’s wrong and we should stop it.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Aliens Custody Immigration
More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
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Leader People Purpose Themselves Thinking
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We – the American people – we are the solution.
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Government People Problem
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
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Knows Mistake President
Over the past 7 years, we’ve tried to modernize the economy, and today what we’re doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Financial Law Today
My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Day Moving New People Wife
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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Country Enough Opportunity Responsibility Say
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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Punishment Responsibility Special
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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Economy People Wealth
I misled people, including even my wife.
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Humorous People Stupid
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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Liberal Media Party People
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.
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Adversity Thinking Yesterday
I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
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Dream Growth Jobs
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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Class Example Political
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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Democracy Home Strong Symbol Unique
Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
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Country More People World
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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Conflict Cooperation Hurt People Real
What you earn depends on what you learn.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Cookies Fortune Information Internet Technology
We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Believe Reform Welfare
I like the job. That’s what I’ll miss the most… I’m not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I’ve liked it.
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Jobs Missing Political
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Funny Inspirational Marijuana
Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.
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Control Government Historical Inside
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.
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Community Immigration Principles
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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Country Esteem India Self
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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Business Improvement Motivational Self
Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

People Showbusiness Ugly
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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