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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONOn Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who’s the last President to give you a balanced budget?
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.
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America’s greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.
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We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
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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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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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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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I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit–investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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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.
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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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We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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