William J. Clinton Quotes - Page 11

• When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Moving, Gun

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• I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.

  William J. Clinton

  Taken, Years, White

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What we believe in is what works.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Teaching, Assessment

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• Only the police should have handguns.

  William J. Clinton

  Gun, Should Have, Police

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• ...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

  William J. Clinton

  Zero, Lying, Criminals

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• Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.

  William J. Clinton

  Community, Principles, Immigration

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• My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

  William J. Clinton

  Memories, Father, Should Have

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• ...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

  William J. Clinton

  Immigration, Borders, Facts

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1196, Best Books on

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

  William J. Clinton

  America, Light, Rising

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.2353, Government Printing Office

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• The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, America, Awards

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• Talk to people about what our real choices are... Our way works better... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Thinking, Talking

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• In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Stupid, Humorous

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• There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

  William J. Clinton

  World, Explanation, Mainframe

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1546, Best Books on

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• Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Mother, Weekend, Vegas

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• Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

  William J. Clinton

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Blessing

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• In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Military, Example

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. 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. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Horse, Believe

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

  William J. Clinton

  Needs, Generations, Gender

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• Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.

  William J. Clinton

  Law, Today, Financial

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999".

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• The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

  William J. Clinton

  Heart, Army, Progress

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• [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Riding, Driving

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• There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

  William J. Clinton

  Successful, Government, Shrinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.

  William J. Clinton

  Magic, Partnership, Gaga

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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.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Age, Lasts

  Clinton, William J. (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.614, Best Books on

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