Bill Clinton Quotes
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In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
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Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
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The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
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Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.
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Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.
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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
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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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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
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The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.
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I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.
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Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.
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I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
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So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
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I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.
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Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.
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If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.
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We Democrats have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.
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There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
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We United States are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.
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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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Only the police should have handguns.
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The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.