Bill Clinton Quotes
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Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.
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Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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What we should be doing in US is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it.
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I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.
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I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.
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We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.
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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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I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
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We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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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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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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...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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Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?
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You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
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The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.
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Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
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One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.
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If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.
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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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Americans know the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.
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A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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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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If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.