American - President | August 19, 1946 -
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.
William J. Clinton
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I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.
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Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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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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If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
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One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.
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I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
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