Bill Clinton Quotes
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.
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I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.
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This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.
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We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.
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I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.
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To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnot like it, and I didnot inhale, and I never tried again.
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We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.
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Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.
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If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.
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That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.
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People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.
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Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
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We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.
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We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
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The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.
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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
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Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.
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I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.
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I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.