A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONBut 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 need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
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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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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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There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
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Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
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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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I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time – never. These allegations are false.
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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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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.
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The Constitution is a radical document… it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
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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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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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Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.
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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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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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People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they’re going to do – instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
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It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.
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Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We – the American people – we are the solution.
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NASA even sent Chuck Berry’s music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they’re out there, they’re duck walking
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If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
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When it comes to anything that’s social, whether it’s your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
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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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