Bill Clinton Quotes

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

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In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

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Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

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The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

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I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

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I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

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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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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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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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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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I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the heart of religion and to drive it out of our public life. What they intended to do was to set up a system so that we could bring religion into our public life and into our private life without any of us telling the other what to do.

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

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

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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

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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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