For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values – our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONTechnology 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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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing – both personally and professionally.
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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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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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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we’re living.
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I’ve gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It’s made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don’t.
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
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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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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?
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
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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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Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
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