Bill Clinton Quotes
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History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
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A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
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I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.
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In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.
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A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.
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I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.
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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
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I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.
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The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.
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All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.
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I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
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I still believe in a place called Hope.
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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 bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
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Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.
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...Nixon's subversion of the consititution consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
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I knew from the minute I saw her Hillary that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.
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Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.
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I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.
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Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
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Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.
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...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.
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Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.