One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
WILLIAM J. CLINTONWe must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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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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…the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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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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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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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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We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
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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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You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
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A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.
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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.
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If we disagree and I think I’m right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, ‘I told you so.’
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[Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she’s a natural leader, she’s a good organiser, and she’s the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.
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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.
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It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
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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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When 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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I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale.
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Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
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We don’t need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.
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Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
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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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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.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
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