Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.
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The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.
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In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.
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Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.
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Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
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I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.
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The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.
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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.
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Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.
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The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.
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We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
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They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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