Bill Clinton Quotes
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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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My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
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Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.
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We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
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The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?
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Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.
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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 personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.
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Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
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The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.
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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
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A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
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Life's real victories must be shared.
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We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
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Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.
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The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.
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I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.