Bill Clinton Quotes
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Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.
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We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.
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More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
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You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
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I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.
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I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
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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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Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
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Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.
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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'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.
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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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We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.
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We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.
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I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
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Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.
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We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."
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Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.
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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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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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Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.
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In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.
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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.