Bill Clinton Quotes
83 Bill Clinton quotes:
"When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport."
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"We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice. We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of us are in a way the children of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King."
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"If you believe in a security strategy -- a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse -- we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world."
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"Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."
Failure Quotes
Pessimism Quotes
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"America will not stop standing guard for peace, or freedom or stability in the Middle East and around the world."
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"I do believe we need to do more on our own here in America to deal with some of the things we've learned, some of the pressure points we've learned are on our people in these last few months."
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"We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it."
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"I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America."
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"In our shock and grief one thing must remain clear, hate and prejudice are not American values. The public outrage in Laramie and all across America today echoes what we heard at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes last year -- there is something we can do about this, Congress needs to pass our tough Hate Crimes Legislation. It can do so even before it adjourns and it should do so."
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"They are the tip of what I'm convinced is a much bigger iceberg than most leaders of most wealthy countries recognize,"
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"We must not take our economic strength for granted. That's why it is critical that we continue to pay down the debt -- to keep inflation and interest rates low."
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"The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime."
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"Pre-emptive action today may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future because -- and I have ordered this kind of action -- I don't care how precise your bombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocent people die."
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"If ever there was a doubt about the importance of exercising the most fundamental right of citizenship, it was clearly answered by the first presidential election of the 21st century."
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"We are still experiencing the largest economic expansion of our history. Our economy is 50 percent bigger than it was eight years ago."
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"will give some guidance to our members of Congress."
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"That whether you are British, American or some other nationality, the No 1 task is to move from inter-dependence -- which can be good or bad -- to an integrated global community in which there is a shared future, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity and, most importantly, shared values. . . . The only way we can live together is if we say the celebration of our differences requires us to say that our common humanity matters more."
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"In eight days John Kerry is going to make America the comeback country."
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"If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves."
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"This agreement will allow the delivery of life-saving medicines to people who desperately need them. It represents a big breakthrough in our efforts to begin treatment programs in places where, until now, there has been virtually no medicine, and therefore no hope."
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