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William J. Clinton

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    William J. Clinton

    $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

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    41, you look great. Love what you're doing.

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    Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

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    Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

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    A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

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    A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

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    A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.

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    African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

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    After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

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    A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

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    AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

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    All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

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    All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

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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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    All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.

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    All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

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    Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

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    Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans.

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    A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

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    [Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.

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    American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

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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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    Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

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    Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

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    America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.

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    And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

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    And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

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    Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve.

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    Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

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    Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.

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    A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

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    A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

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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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    As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

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    At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

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    At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

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    A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.

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    Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

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    Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

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    Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

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    Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

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    Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

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    Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

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    But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

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    By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.

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    By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

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    By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

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    California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.

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    Character is a journey, not a destination.

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    Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.