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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONA great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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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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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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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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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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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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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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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.”
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
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My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create the “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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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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