Bill Clinton Quotes

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Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

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

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If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.

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I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

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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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Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

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I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

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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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Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.

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NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I
didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

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We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

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We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.

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When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.

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We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.

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To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

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It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

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This is a good deal for the United States, north Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments....Only as it does, so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.

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The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

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One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

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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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Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

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Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

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Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.

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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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Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

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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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We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.

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If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.

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Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

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